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_
{\text {H}}^{(2)}(0)= 0.12$, demonstrating that our source operates in the single-photon …