Large-scale quantum photonic circuits in silicon

NC Harris, D Bunandar, M Pant, GR Steinbrecher… - …, 2016‏ - degruyter.com
Quantum information science offers inherently more powerful methods for communication,
computation, and precision measurement that take advantage of quantum superposition and …

Integrated source of spectrally filtered correlated photons for large-scale quantum photonic systems

NC Harris, D Grassani, A Simbula, M Pant, M Galli… - Physical Review X, 2014‏ - APS
We demonstrate the generation of quantum-correlated photon pairs combined with the
spectral filtering of the pump field by more than 95 dB on a single silicon chip using …

Material platforms for integrated quantum photonics

S Bogdanov, MY Shalaginov, A Boltasseva… - Optical Materials …, 2016‏ - opg.optica.org
On-chip integration of quantum optical systems could be a major factor enabling photonic
quantum technologies. Unlike the case of electronics, where the essential device is the …

Nonlinear properties of dispersion engineered InGaP photonic wire waveguides in the telecommunication wavelength range

UD Dave, B Kuyken, F Leo, SP Gorza, S Combrie… - Optics express, 2015‏ - opg.optica.org
We propose high index contrast InGaP photonic wires as a platform for the integration of
nonlinear optical functions in the telecom wavelength window. We characterize the linear …

High-extinction-ratio TE/TM selective Bragg grating filters on silicon-on-insulator

C Klitis, G Cantarella, MJ Strain, M Sorel - Optics letters, 2017‏ - opg.optica.org
We report on the design and fabrication of TE and TM polarization selective Bragg grating
filters in the form of sinusoidal perturbations on the waveguide sidewall and etched holes on …

Tunable Q-factor silicon microring resonators for ultra-low power parametric processes

MJ Strain, C Lacava, L Meriggi, I Cristiani, M Sorel - Optics Letters, 2015‏ - opg.optica.org
A compact silicon ring resonator is demonstrated that allows simple electrical tuning of the
ring coupling coefficient and Q-factor and therefore the resonant enhancement of on-chip …

Integrated thin-silicon passive components for hybrid silicon-lithium niobate photonics

X Wang, F Valdez, V Mere, S Mookherjea - Optics Continuum, 2022‏ - opg.optica.org
A silicon photonics platform with a reduced silicon layer thickness, which is suitable for
hybrid thin-film lithium niobate traveling-wave electro-optic modulators, is used to design low …

Theoretical and experimental analysis of burst-mode wavelength conversion via a differentially-biased SOA-MZI

A Tsakyridis, M Moralis-Pegios, C Vagionas… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020‏ - opg.optica.org
This article presents a theoretical and experimental analysis of an all optical Burst Mode
Wavelength Converter (BMWC), exploiting a deeply saturated differentially biased …

Silicon photonic filters with high rejection of both TE and TM modes for on-chip four wave mixing applications

G Cantarella, C Klitis, M Sorel, MJ Strain - Optics Express, 2017‏ - opg.optica.org
Wavelength selective filters represent one of the key elements for photonic integrated
circuits (PIC) and many of their applications in linear and non-linear optics. In devices …

Characterize and optimize the four-wave mixing in dual-interferometer coupled silicon microrings

C Wu, Y Liu, X Gu, S Xue, X Yu, Y Kong… - Chinese …, 2019‏ - iopscience.iop.org
By designing and fabricating a series of dual-interferometer coupled silicon microrings, the
coupling condition of the pump, signal, and idler beams can be engineered independently …