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Silicon Photonics III

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Abstract

The recent development of chip-scale integrated quantum photonic circuits has radically changed the way in which quantum optic experiments are performed, and provides a means to deliver complex and compact quantum photonic technologies for applications in quantum communications, sensing, and computation. Silicon photonics is a promising material system for the delivery of a fully integrated and large-scale quantum photonic technology platform, where all key components could be monolithically integrated into single quantum devices. In this chapter, we provide an overview of the field silicon quantum photonics, presenting the latest developments in the generation, manipulation, and detection of quantum states of light key on-chip functions that form the basic building blocks of future quantum information processing and communication technologies.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This is the case for a laser, outputting \(10\) mW, with a typical signal-to-source spontaneous emission ratio (SSE) of around 50 dB.

  2. 2.

    \(ACC\) is defined as the number of uncorrelated events leading to coincidental detections per second. It can be either directly measured or estimated using the fact that it is the product of the independent probabilities \(p_{i} \equiv C_{i} \tau\) and \(p_{s} \equiv C_{s} \tau\) for getting a single click from each channel within \(\tau\), multiplied by the number of coincidence window in one second \(\frac{1}{\tau }\), giving \(ACC\left( P \right) = C_{i} \left( P \right)C_{s} \left( P \right)\tau\).

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    The derivation follows the framework developed in [95] analyzed using quantum a ring in [96].

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