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 George 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
Early online date1 Dec 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Feb 2017

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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