Abstract
Efficient on-chip integration of single-photon emitters imposes a major bottleneck for applications of photonic integrated circuits in quantum technologies. Resonantly excited solid-state emitters are emerging as near-optimal quantum light sources, if not for the lack of scalability of current devices. Current integration approaches rely on cost-inefficient individual emitter placement in photonic integrated circuits, rendering applications impossible. A promising scalable platform is based on two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. However, resonant excitation and single-photon emission of waveguide-coupled 2D emitters have proven to be elusive. Here, we show a scalable approach using a silicon nitride photonic waveguide to simultaneously strain-localize single-photon emitters from a tungsten diselenide (WSe2) monolayer and to couple them into a waveguide mode. We demonstrate the guiding of single photons in the photonic circuit by measuring second-order autocorrelation of g$^{(2)}(0)=0.150\pm0.093$ and perform on-chip resonant excitation yielding a g$^{(2)}(0)=0.377\pm0.081$. Our results are an important step to enable coherent control of quantum states and multiplexing of high-quality single photons in a scalable photonic quantum circuit.
Original language | English |
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Publisher | arXiv |
Publication status | Published - 18 Feb 2020 |
Keywords
- physics.app-ph
- physics.optics
- quant-ph
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Errando-Herranz, C. (Contributor), Scholl, E. (Contributor), Picard, R. (Contributor), Laini, M. (Contributor), Gyger, S. (Contributor), Elshaari, A. W. (Contributor), Branny, A. (Contributor), Wennberg, U. (Contributor), Barbat, S. (Contributor), Renaud, T. (Contributor), Brotons i Gisbert, M. (Contributor), Bonato, C. (Contributor), Gerardot, B. D. (Contributor), Zwiller, V. (Contributor) & Jöns, K. D. (Contributor), Heriot-Watt University, 2020
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