Integrated photon-pair sources with nonlinear optics

Y Wang, KD Jöns, Z Sun - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Assisted by the rapid development of photonic integrated circuits, scalable and versatile chip-
based quantum light sources with nonlinear optics are increasingly tangible for real-world …

Nonlinear silicon photonics

M Borghi, C Castellan, S Signorini, A Trenti… - Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Silicon photonics is a technology based on fabricating integrated optical circuits by using the
same paradigms as the dominant electronics industry. After twenty years of fervid …

Telecommunications-band heralded single photons from a silicon nanophotonic chip

M Davanco, JR Ong, AB Shehata, A Tosi, I Agha… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate room temperature heralded single photon generation in a CMOS-
compatible silicon nanophotonic device. The strong modal confinement and slow group …

A chirality-based quantum leap

CD Aiello, JM Abendroth, M Abbas, A Afanasev… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
There is increasing interest in the study of chiral degrees of freedom occurring in matter and
in electromagnetic fields. Opportunities in quantum sciences will likely exploit two main …

Observing exceptional point degeneracy of radiation with electrically pumped photonic crystal coupled-nanocavity lasers

K Takata, K Nozaki, E Kuramochi, S Matsuo, K Takeda… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Controlling gain and loss of coupled optical cavities can induce non-Hermitian
degeneracies of eigenstates, called exceptional points (EPs). Various unconventional …

Theory of intrinsic propagation losses in topological edge states of planar photonic crystals

E Sauer, JP Vasco, S Hughes - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Using a semianalytic guided-mode expansion technique, we present theory and analysis of
intrinsic propagation losses for topological photonic crystal slab waveguide structures with …

On-chip temporal focusing of elastic waves in a phononic crystal waveguide

M Kurosu, D Hatanaka, K Onomitsu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The ability to manipulate acoustic and elastic waveforms in continuous media has attracted
significant research interest and is crucial for practical applications ranging from biological …

Wide-band slow light in compact photonic crystal coupled-cavity waveguides

M Minkov, V Savona - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Slow light has a variety of applications, in particular for enhanced nonlinear effects like four-
wave mixing and high-harmonic generation. Here, we propose a photonic crystal coupled …

Silicon microring-based wavelength converter with integrated pump and signal suppression

JR Ong, R Kumar, S Mookherjea - Optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We fabricate a two-stage wavelength converter in silicon by cascading a microring
wavelength mixer with a five-ring coupled-resonator filter. A pin diode is incorporated into …

Slow light enhanced correlated photon pair generation in photonic-crystal coupled-resonator optical waveguides

N Matsuda, H Takesue, K Shimizu, Y Tokura… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate the generation of quantum-correlated photon pairs from a Si photonic-
crystal coupled-resonator optical waveguide. A slow-light supermode realized by the …