Hybrid III-V/Silicon photonic circuits embedding generation and routing of entangled photon pairs

Autor: Lazzari Lorenzo, Schuhmann Jérémie, Lemaître Aristide, Amanti Maria I., Boeuf Frédéric, Raineri Fabrice, Baboux Florent, Ducci Sara
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol 309, p 08005 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2100-014X
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202430908005
Popis: Hybrid photonic devices, harnessing the advantages of multiple materials while mitigating their respective weaknesses, represent a promising solution to the effective on-chip integration of generation and manipulation of non-classical states of light encoding quantum information. We demonstrate a hybrid III-V/Silicon quantum photonic device combining the strong second-order nonlinearity and compliance with electrical pumping of the III-V semiconductor platform with the high maturity and CMOS compatibility of the silicon photonic platform. Our device embeds the spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) of photon pairs into an Al-GaAs source and their subsequent routing to a silicon-on-insulator circuitry. This enables the on-chip generation of broadband telecom photon pairs by type 0 and type 2 SPDC from the hybrid device, at room temperature and with strong rejection of the pump beam. Two-photon interference with 92% visibility proves the high energy-time entanglement quality characterizing the produced quantum state, thereby enabling a wide range of quantum information applications.
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