Parametric down-conversion photon-pair source on a nanophotonic chip

Xiang Guo; Chang-ling Zou; Carsten Schuck; Hojoong Jung; Risheng Cheng; Hong X Tang

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.249

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Parametric down-conversion photon-pair source on a nanophotonic chip

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- Parametric down-conversion photon-pair source on a nanophotonic chip
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 6, Issue 2, (2017)
- Affiliations：
  
  Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
- Author bio：
  
  X Guo, Email: xiang.guo@yale.edu
  HX Tang, Email: hong.tang@yale.edu
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.249
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- Published：2017-06，
  
  Published Online：07 November 2016，
  
  Received：01 June 2016，
  
  Revised：27 October 2016，
  
  Accepted：27 October 2016
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Guo, X. et al. Parametric down-conversion photon-pair source on a nanophotonic chip. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16249 (2017).
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Guo, X. et al. Parametric down-conversion photon-pair source on a nanophotonic chip. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16249 (2017). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.249.

摘要

Abstract

Quantum-photonic chips

which integrate quantum light sources alongside active and passive optical elements

as well as single-photon detectors

show great potential for photonic quantum information processing and quantum technology. Mature semiconductor nanofabrication processes allow for scaling such photonic integrated circuits to on-chip networks of increasing complexity. Second-order nonlinear materials are the method of choice for generating photonic quantum states in the overwhelming majority of linear optic experiments using bulk components

but integration with waveguide circuitry on a nanophotonic chip proved to be challenging. Here

we demonstrate such an on-chip parametric down-conversion source of photon pairs based on second-order nonlinearity in an aluminum-nitride microring resonator. We show the potential of our source for quantum information processing by measuring the high visibility anti-bunching of heralded single photons with nearly ideal state purity. Our down-conversion source yields measured coincidence rates of 80 Hz

which implies MHz generation rates of correlated photon pairs. Low noise performance is demonstrated by measuring high coincidence-to-accidental ratios. The generated photon pairs are spectrally far separated from the pump field

providing great potential for realizing sufficient on-chip filtering and monolithic integration of quantum light sources

waveguide circuits and single-photon detectors.

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Keywords

nanofabricationquantum photonic chipsecond-order nonlinear materialsingle-photon source

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