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On-chip photon-pair generation in a silica microtoroidal cavity
Author(s) -
Yosuke Hashimoto,
Akihisa Goban,
Yuki Hirabayashi,
Yuta Kobayashi,
Takao Araki,
Takao Aoki
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.414037
Subject(s) - materials science
Microcavities with high Q factor and small mode volume have the potential to be efficient and compact sources of photon pairs. Here, we demonstrate on-chip photon-pair generation by spontaneous four-wave mixing in a silica microtoroidal cavity and obtain a coincidence-to-accidental ratio of 7.4 ± 0.1 with a pump power of 46 µW. The heralded photons also exhibit antibunching characterized by autocorrelation function values of g c (2)(0)=0.57±0.03<1. Comparing with a scaling model, the main noise source is found to be spontaneous Raman scattering in the cavity. This work opens a new possible means for realizing integrated nonclassical photon sources based on silica photonic circuits toward scalable quantum technologies.

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