Entanglement generation using silicon wire waveguide

Konferenz: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication - Post-Deadline Papers
16.09.2007- 20.09.2007 in Berlin, Germany

Tagungsband: ECOC 2007

Seiten: 2Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

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Autoren:
Takesue, Hiroki; Tokura, Yasuhiro (NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi, Japan)
Takesue, Hiroki; Tokura, Yasuhiro (CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency)
Fukuda, Hiroshi; Tsuchizawa, Tai; Watanabe, Toshifumi; Yamada, Koji; Itabashi, Sei-ichi (NTT Microsystem Integration Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi, Japan)

Inhalt:
We report the first entanglement generation experiment utilizing a silicon waveguide. Using a 1.09-cm long silicon wire waveguide, we successfully generated 1.5-µm time-bin entangled photons and observed a two-photon interference fringe with >73% visibility.