High-extinction ratio integrated photonic filters for silicon quantum photonics

Opt Lett. 2017 Feb 15;42(4):815-818. doi: 10.1364/OL.42.000815.

Abstract

We present the generation of quantum-correlated photon pairs and subsequent pump rejection across two silicon-on-insulator photonic integrated circuits. Incoherently cascaded lattice filters are used to provide over 100 dB pass-band to stop-band contrast with no additional external filtering. Photon pairs generated in a microring resonator are successfully separated from the input pump, confirmed by temporal correlations measurements.