Entangled photon pair generation from an InP membrane micro-ring resonator.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Kumar, Rakesh Ranjan; Raevskaia, Marina; Pogoretskii, Vadim; Jiao, Yuqing; Tsang, Hon Ki
- Source
- Applied Physics Letters. 1/14/2019, Vol. 114 Issue 2, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 5p. 1 Diagram, 1 Chart, 4 Graphs.
- Subject
- *PHOTON pairs
*INDIUM phosphide
*MICRORESONATORS (Optoelectronics)
*QUANTUM interference
*FOUR-wave mixing
*QUANTUM entanglement
- Language
- ISSN
- 0003-6951
We performed quantum interference measurements using photon pairs generated via cavity enhanced spontaneous four-wave mixing in an indium phosphide membrane micro-ring resonator which was optically pumped by a continuous-wave laser. The internal generation rate was estimated to be as high as 70 kHz at a coupled input power of 0.022 mW, and a two-photon quantum interference raw visibility of 78.4 ± 2% was observed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]