Towards an integrated quantum photonics platform on silicon for secured communications
10:10 - 10:30
Segolene Olivier, Corrado Sciancalepore, El Dirani Houssein, Karim Hassan, Raouia Rhazi, Costantino Agnesi, Giuseppe Vallone, Davide Bacco, Yunhong Ding, Karsten Rottwitt, Frederico Sabattoli, Matteo Galli and Daniele Bajoni Silicon photonics technology is very attractive to build compact, low-cost and scalable quantum photonics integrated circuits addressing the requirements of MDI-QKD protocols. It has now reached a high level of maturity for datacom and telecom applications. Building further on this platform, we aim at developing a versatile quantum-grade platform for fully integrated quantum transmitter and receiver circuits based either on superposition or entanglement approaches and combining both quantum and classical channels. We present first experimental results of Hong-Ou-Mandel interference between weak coherent pulses generated by hybrid III-V/Si lasers and the emission of photon pairs by high-Q silicon microring resonators.
