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 …

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 …

Entanglement swap** between independent and asynchronous integrated photon-pair sources

F Samara, N Maring, A Martin, AS Raja… - Quantum Science …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Integrated photonics represents a technology that could greatly improve quantum
communication networks in terms of cost, size, scaling, and robustness. A key benchmark for …

On-chip quantum interference with heralded photons from two independent micro-ring resonator sources in silicon photonics

II Faruque, GF Sinclair, D Bonneau, JG Rarity… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
High visibility on-chip quantum interference among indistinguishable single-photons from
multiples sources is a key prerequisite for integrated linear optical quantum computing …

Estimating the indistinguishability of heralded single photons using second-order correlation

II Faruque, GF Sinclair, D Bonneau, T Ono… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
Integrated quantum photonics is a promising strand of research that involves guiding light in
submicron-scale structures and utilizing the quantum properties of the fundamental particle …

Testing multi-photon interference on a silicon chip

BA Bell, GS Thekkadath, R Ge, X Cai, IA Walmsley - Optics Express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Multi-photon interference in large multi-port interferometers is key to linear optical quantum
computing and in particular to boson sampling. Silicon photonics enables complex …

Semiparametric estimation of the Hong-Ou-Mandel profile

V Cimini, F Albarelli, I Gianani, M Barbieri - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We apply the theory of semiparametric estimation to a Hong-Ou-Mandel interference
experiment with a spectrally entangled two-photon state generated by spontaneous …

Effect of self-and cross-phase modulation on photon pairs generated by spontaneous four-wave mixing in integrated optical waveguides

GF Sinclair, MG Thompson - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
A time-domain approach using the momentum operator is used to model spontaneous four-
wave mixing in a lossless nonlinear waveguide. The effects of self-and cross-phase …

Indistinguishable heralded single photon generation via relative temporal multiplexing of two sources

X Zhang, YH Lee, BA Bell, PHW Leong, T Rudolph… - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Generating N single photons simultaneously is a formidable challenge due to the lack of
deterministic single photon sources. Recent work [New J. Phys. 19, 063013 (2017] has …

Is Heralded Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence with Single Absorbers Possible with Current Technology?

A Jechow - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The interaction between single or a fixed number of photons with a single absorber is of
fundamental interest in quantum technology. The harnessing of light matter interactions at …