Photon-Pair Generation From two Silicon Micro-Rings Using the Recycled Optical Power From a Contra-Directional Pump-Reject Filter (Th2A.36)
Presenter: Sudip Shekhar, University of British Columbia
Two micro-ring resonators are integrated with two contra-directional pump-reject filters in a pump-reuse configuration showing a 55\% increase in the coincidence counts from both sources compared to a single source at 1mW input pump power.
Authors:Abdelrahman Afifi, University of British Columbia / Andreas Pfenning, University of British Columbia / Sudip Shekhar, University of British Columbia / Lukas Chrostowski, University of British Columbia / Jeff Young, University of British Columbia