Phys.org January 3, 2023
While substantial progress has been made, separately, towards ultra-low loss chip-scale photonic circuits and high brightness single-photon sources, integration of these technologies has remained elusive. An international team of researchers (USA – National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Maryland, research org., MIT, UC Santa Barbara, industry, Brazil, South Korea) integrated a quantum emitter single-photon source with a wafer-scale, ultra-low loss silicon nitride photonic circuit to demonstrate triggered and pure single-photon emission into a Si3N4 photonic circuit with ≈ 1 dB/m propagation loss at a wavelength of ≈ 930 nm. They observed resonance fluorescence in the strong drive regime, showing promise towards coherent control of quantum emitters. According to the researchers their work is a step forward towards scaled chip-integrated photonic quantum information systems in which storing, time-demultiplexing or buffering of deterministically generated single-photons is critical…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Integration of single photon source to ultra-low-loss waveguide. Credit: Nature Communications volume 13, Article number: 7693 (2022)Â