Bright semiconductor single-photon sources pumped by heterogeneously integrated micropillar lasers with electrical injections

Xueshi Li; Shunfa Liu; Yuming Wei; Jiantao Ma; Changkun Song; Ying Yu; Rongbin Su; Wei Geng; Haiqiao Ni; Hanqing Liu; Xiangbin Su; Zhichuan Niu; You-ling Chen; Jin Liu

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Bright semiconductor single-photon sources pumped by heterogeneously integrated micropillar lasers with electrical injections

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- Bright semiconductor single-photon sources pumped by heterogeneously integrated micropillar lasers with electrical injections
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 12, Issue 3, Pages: 489-496(2023)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China
  2.Hisilicon Research, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd, 518129, Shenzhen, China
  3.State Key Laboratory for Superlattice and Microstructures, State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100083, Beijing, China
  4.Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100049, Beijing, China
- Author bio：
  
  Zhichuan Niu (zcniu@semi.ac.cn)
  You-ling Chen (ylchen@semi.ac.cn)
  Jin Liu (liujin23@mail.sysu.edu.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-023-01110-9
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- Published：31 March 2023，
  
  Published Online：6 March 2023，
  
  Received：16 November 2022，
  
  Revised：7 February 2023，
  
  Accepted：16 February 2023
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Li, X. S. et al. Bright semiconductor single-photon sources pumped by heterogeneously integrated micropillar lasers with electrical injections. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 489-496 (2023).
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Li, X. S. et al. Bright semiconductor single-photon sources pumped by heterogeneously integrated micropillar lasers with electrical injections. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 489-496 (2023). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-023-01110-9.

摘要

Abstract

The emerging hybrid integrated quantum photonics combines the advantages of different functional components into a single chip to meet the stringent requirements for quantum information processing. Despite the tremendous progress in hybrid integrations of Ⅲ-Ⅴ quantum emitters with silicon-based photonic circuits and superconducting single-photon detectors

on-chip optical excitations of quantum emitters via miniaturized lasers towards single-photon sources (SPSs) with low power consumptions

small device footprints

and excellent coherence properties is highly desirable yet illusive. In this work

we present realizations of bright semiconductor SPSs heterogeneously integrated with on-chip electrically-injected microlasers. Different from previous one-by-one transfer printing technique implemented in hybrid quantum dot (QD) photonic devices

multiple deterministically coupled QD-circular Bragg Grating (CBG) SPSs were integrated with electrically-injected micropillar lasers at one time via a potentially scalable transfer printing process assisted by the wide-field photoluminescence (PL) imaging technique. Optically pumped by electrically-injected microlasers

pure single photons are generated with a high-brightness of a count rate of 3.8 M/s and an extraction efficiency of 25.44%. Such a high-brightness is due to the enhancement by the cavity mode of the CBG

which is confirmed by a Purcell factor of 2.5. Our work provides a powerful tool for advancing hybrid integrated quantum photonics in general and boosts the developments for realizing highly-compact

energy-efficient and coherent SPSs in particular.

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