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November 30, 2020

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High Spectro-temporal Purity Single-photons Using Pump Pulse Engineering in Silicon Micro-racetrack Resonators

B. M. Burridge, I. I. Faruque, J. G. Rarity, and J. Barreto, “High Spectro-temporal Purity Single-photons Using Pump Pulse Engineering in Silicon Micro-racetrack Resonators,” in Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science, B. Lee, C. Mazzali, K. Corwin, and R. Jason Jones, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2020), paper JTu7B.2.

Single photons with high spectro-temporal purity are critical for photonic quantum information processing. We engineer laser pulses driving a micro-racetrack resonator to obtain SFWM photons with 98.0±0.3% purity, surpassing traditional 92% purities.

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