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Hauptverfasser: Yasui, Shoichiro, Inaba, Tomohiro, Nishi, Hidetaka, Kaji, Reina, Adachi, Satoru, Xu, Xuejun, Sanada, Haruki
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.22825
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author Yasui, Shoichiro
Inaba, Tomohiro
Nishi, Hidetaka
Kaji, Reina
Adachi, Satoru
Xu, Xuejun
Sanada, Haruki
author_facet Yasui, Shoichiro
Inaba, Tomohiro
Nishi, Hidetaka
Kaji, Reina
Adachi, Satoru
Xu, Xuejun
Sanada, Haruki
contents Entangled photon-pair sources are indispensable building blocks of quantum information processing technologies. Among the available approaches, on-chip microresonators are particularly promising owing to their resonant enhancement, CMOS-compatible fabrication, and wafer-scale integration capabilities. In this study, we optimized the structure of silicon microring resonators to suppress sidewall scattering. As a result, we achieved an intrinsic Q-factor of 1.26$\times$10$^6$ using only standard fabrication processes. The high-Q resonator enabled a brightness coefficient of 3.9$\times$10$^9$ Hz/GHz/mW$^2$, with a maximum brightness of 22.0 MHz/GHz and a maximum photon-pair generation rate of 9.19 MHz. Furthermore, Franson-type two-photon interference exhibited a visibility of 98.0$\pm$0.2%, confirming time-energy entanglement. These results show that narrow bandwidth and high generation rate can be achieved simultaneously in CMOS-compatible silicon photonic sources, advancing their use in quantum repeaters.
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spellingShingle Narrowband and high-rate entangled photon-pair generation from a high-Q silicon microring resonator
Yasui, Shoichiro
Inaba, Tomohiro
Nishi, Hidetaka
Kaji, Reina
Adachi, Satoru
Xu, Xuejun
Sanada, Haruki
Optics
Entangled photon-pair sources are indispensable building blocks of quantum information processing technologies. Among the available approaches, on-chip microresonators are particularly promising owing to their resonant enhancement, CMOS-compatible fabrication, and wafer-scale integration capabilities. In this study, we optimized the structure of silicon microring resonators to suppress sidewall scattering. As a result, we achieved an intrinsic Q-factor of 1.26$\times$10$^6$ using only standard fabrication processes. The high-Q resonator enabled a brightness coefficient of 3.9$\times$10$^9$ Hz/GHz/mW$^2$, with a maximum brightness of 22.0 MHz/GHz and a maximum photon-pair generation rate of 9.19 MHz. Furthermore, Franson-type two-photon interference exhibited a visibility of 98.0$\pm$0.2%, confirming time-energy entanglement. These results show that narrow bandwidth and high generation rate can be achieved simultaneously in CMOS-compatible silicon photonic sources, advancing their use in quantum repeaters.
title Narrowband and high-rate entangled photon-pair generation from a high-Q silicon microring resonator
topic Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.22825