Advances in silicon quantum photonics

JC Adcock, J Bao, Y Chi, X Chen… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Quantum technology is poised to enable a step change in human capability for computing,
communications and sensing. Photons are indispensable as carriers of quantum information …

Optical isolation using microring modulators

N Dostart, H Gevorgyan, D Onural, MA Popović - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Optical isolators, while commonplace in bulk and fiber optical systems, remain a key missing
component in integrated photonics. Isolation using magneto-optic materials has been …

Unidirectional frequency conversion in microring resonators for on-chip frequency-multiplexed single-photon sources

M Heuck, JG Koefoed, JB Christensen… - New Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Microring resonators are attractive for low-power frequency conversion via Bragg-scattering
four-wave-mixing due to their comb-like resonance spectrum, which allows resonant …

Noise filtering for highly correlated photon pairs from silicon waveguides

JM Lee, WJ Lee, MS Kim, JJ Ju - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We fabricate silicon waveguide spirals and a ring resonator to generate photon pairs based
on a spontaneous four-wave mixing. The coincidence-to-accidental-ratio (CAR) of photon …

Ultraflat bandpass, high extinction, and tunable silicon photonic filters

A Singh, R Belansky, M Soltani - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We report on the design and the demonstration of silicon photonic ultraflat bandpass filters
with low insertion loss and high out-of-band rejection for an operation near the 1550 nm …

Integrated photonic platforms for quantum technology: a review

RK Ramakrishnan, AB Ravichandran, A Mishra… - ISSS Journal of Micro …, 2023 - Springer
Quantum information processing has conceptually changed the way we process and
transmit information. Our understanding of quantum physics, which explains the seemingly …

Distributed Bragg reflector based ASE noise removal pump wavelength filters for futuristic chip-scale quantum photonic circuits

P Priyadarshini, A Goswami, A Velamuri… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
This article reports a novel design of a compact tunable resonance filter with a highly
extinguished and ultra-broad out-of-band rejection for on-chip amplified spontaneous noise …

Contra-directional pump reject filters integrated with a micro-ring resonator photon-pair source in silicon

AE Afifi, M Hammood, NAF Jaeger, S Shekhar… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
High coincidence-to-accidental ratio (CAR) is crucial for photon-pair sources (PPSs)
integrated with pump reject filters (PRFs) in silicon, but CAR values currently reported for …

Quantum-Correlated Photon-Pair Source with Integrated Feedback Control in 45 nm CMOS

D Kramnik, I Wang, JMF Cabanillas… - … 2022-IEEE 48th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrated photonics provides scalability needed for useful photonic quantum information
processing. Many optical resonators must be aligned to the same pump wavelength to …

Degenerate photons from a cryogenic spontaneous parametric down-conversion source

NA Lange, T Schapeler, JP Höpker, M Protte… - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We demonstrate the generation of degenerate photon pairs from spontaneous parametric
down-conversion in titanium-indiffused waveguides in lithium niobate at cryogenic …