Title :
Twin photon pairs in a high-Q silicon microresonator
Author :
Rogers, Steven ; Xiyuan Lu ; Jiang, Wei C. ; Qiang Lin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Abstract :
We report the generation of high-purity twin photon pairs in a high-Q silicon microdisk resonator, with a pair flux of 5.31 × 10s pairs/s within a bandwidth of 0.73 GHz, and a high CAR as large as 155, the highest value reported to date for twin photon pairs.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; micro-optics; micromechanical resonators; silicon; Si; bandwidth 0.73 GHz; conincidence-to-accidental ratio; high-Q silicon microdisk resonator; high-Q silicon microresonator; pair flux; twin photon pairs;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
