Epitaxial quantum dots: a semiconductor launchpad for photonic quantum technologies

X Zhou, L Zhai, J Liu - Photonics Insights, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Epitaxial quantum dots formed by III–V compound semiconductors are excellent sources of
non-classical photons, creating single photons and entangled multi-photon states on …

Information reconciliation of continuous-variables quantum key distribution: principles, implementations and applications

S Yang, Z Yan, H Yang, Q Lu, Z Lu, L Cheng… - EPJ Quantum …, 2023 - epjqt.epj.org
Quantum key distribution (QKD) can provide information-theoretically secure keys for two
parties of legitimate communication, and information reconciliation, as an indispensable …

Unlocking the monolithic integration scenario: optical coupling between GaSb diode lasers epitaxially grown on patterned Si substrates and passive SiN waveguides

A Remis, L Monge-Bartolome, M Paparella… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Silicon (Si) photonics has recently emerged as a key enabling technology in many
application fields thanks to the mature Si process technology, the large silicon wafer size …

Purcell enhancement of silicon W centers in circular Bragg grating cavities

B Lefaucher, JB Jager, V Calvo, F Cache… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Generating single photons on demand in silicon is a challenge to the scalability of silicon-on-
insulator integrated quantum photonic chips. While several defects acting as artificial atoms …

Integrated photonic computing beyond the von neumann architecture

XY Xu, XM Jin - ACS Photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
In the context of a doomed end of the Moore's law, various new types of computing
architectures have been emerging, aiming to meet the demands of intractable computation …

Ultra‐Low‐Crosstalk Silicon Arrayed‐Waveguide Grating (De) multiplexer with 1.6‐nm Channel Spacing

X Shen, C Li, W Zhao, H Li, Y Shi… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A silicon arrayed‐waveguide grating (AWG) with 1.6‐nm channel spacing is proposed and
realized with high performances for dense wavelength‐division (de) multiplexing systems …

Photonic-chip-based dense entanglement distribution

SY Ren, WQ Wang, YJ Cheng, L Huang, BZ Du… - PhotoniX, 2023 - Springer
The dense quantum entanglement distribution is the basis for practical quantum
communication, quantum networks and distributed quantum computation. To make …

Entanglement generation using cryogenic integrated four-wave mixing

LT Feng, YJ Cheng, XZ Qi, ZY Zhou, M Zhang, DX Dai… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Cryogenic integrated nonlinear photonics can provide fundamental building blocks for
scalable photonic quantum computing and optical interfacing among different platforms …

High-efficiency self-focusing metamaterial grating coupler in silicon nitride with amorphous silicon overlay

W Fraser, D Benedikovic, R Korcek, M Milanizadeh… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Efficient fiber-chip coupling interfaces are critically important for integrated photonics. Since
surface gratings diffract optical signals vertically out of the chip, these couplers can be …

Next-generation silicon photonics: introduction

D Dai, D Liang, P Cheben - Photonics Research, 2022 - opg.optica.org
In the past decade, silicon photonics has been making tremendous progress in terms of
device functionality and performances as well as circuit integration for many practical …