High-extinction ratio integrated photonic filters for silicon quantum photonics

Mateusz Piekarek, Damien Bonneau, Shigehito Miki, Taro Yamashita, Mikio Fujiwara, Masahide Sasaki, Hirotaka Terai, Michael G. Tanner, Chandra M. Natarajan, Robert H. Hadfield, Jeremy L. O'Brien, Mark G. Thompson

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Abstract

We present the generation of quantum-correlated photon pairs and subsequent pump rejection across two silicon-on-insulator photonic integrated circuits. Incoherently cascaded lattice filters are used to provide over 100 dB pass-band to stop-band contrast with no additional external filtering. Photon pairs generated in a microring resonator are successfully separated from the input pump, confirmed by temporal correlations measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)815-818
Number of pages4
JournalOptics Letters
Volume42
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Feb 2017
Externally publishedYes

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