Near-infrared Hong-Ou-Mandel interference on a silicon quantum photonic chip

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 5014-5024

  Xu, Xinan ^a   Xie, Zhenda ^a   Zheng, Jiangjun ^a   Liang, Junlin ^a   Zhong, Tian ^b   Yu, Mingbin ^c   Kocaman, Serdar ^a   Lo, Guo Qiang ^c   Kwong, Dim Lee ^c   Englund, Dirk R ^a   Wong, Franco N C ^b   Wong, Chee Wei ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED DEVICES; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; SILICON;

ENTANGLED PHOTONS; HIGH INDEX CONTRAST; HONG-OU-MANDEL INTERFERENCES; NEAR INFRARED; ON CHIPS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; QUANTUM PHOTONICS; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SILICON PHOTONICS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TWO PHOTON STATE;

VISIBILITY;

SILICON;

CHEMISTRY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFRARED RADIATION; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RAYS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84874545649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.005014     Document Type: Article

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