High coincidence-to-accidental ratio continuous-wave photon-pair generation in a grating-coupled silicon strip waveguide: Letters

Kai Guo, Erik Nicolai Christensen, Jesper Bjerge Christensen, Jacob Gade Koefoed, Davide Bacco, Yunhong Ding, Haiyan Ou, Karsten Rottwitt

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Abstract

We demonstrate a very high coincidence-to-accidental ratio of 673 using continuous-wave photon-pair generation in a silicon strip waveguide through spontaneous four-wave mixing. This result is obtained by employing on-chip photonic-crystal-based grating couplers for both low-loss fiber-to-chip coupling and on-chip suppression of generated spontaneous Raman scattering noise. We measure a minimum heralded second-order correlation of g(H)((2)) (0) = 0.12, demonstrating that our source operates in the single- photon regime with low noise. (C) 2017 The Japan Society of Applied Physics
Original languageEnglish
Article number062801
JournalApplied Physics Express
Volume10
Issue number6
Number of pages5
ISSN1882-0778
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

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