Nonclassical Optical Bistability and Resonance-Locked Regime of Photon-Pair Sources Using Silicon Microring Resonator

Kai Guo, Lin Yang, Xiaodong Shi, Xuanming Liu, Yining Cao, Jingjing Zhang, Xiaolin Wang, Junbo Yang, Haiyan Ou, Yijun Zhao
2019 Physical Review Applied  
We generate correlated photon pairs in an all-pass silicon microring resonator using continuous-wave pumped spontaneous four-wave mixing and we characterize in detail the optical bistability in the nonclassical single-photon regime. Special attention is given to the resonance-locked method by balancing the pump-induced heating and the active off-chip cooling, leading to stable operation of the photon-pair source. The maximal coincidence rate of 20.53 ± 0.34 Hz, maximal coincidence-to-accidental
more » ... ratio of 654 ± 125, and minimal zero-delayed heralded second-order correlation of 0.14 ± 0.09 are achieved. The wavelengths of photon pairs remain unchanged at different pump power, indicating that our source is more compatible with the common communication systems than those using conventional on-resonance strategies, that tunes the pump wavelength. This work not only experimentally validates the nonclassical bistability behaviors, but also puts forward a simple method of pump-resonance matching for high-quality performance.
doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.11.034007 fatcat:3f7nyuh5obaidott2uhyoba4wy