Entanglement generation using silicon wire waveguide
Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication - Post-Deadline Papers
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: ECOC 2007
Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
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)
Abstract:
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.