Hybrid waveguide scheme for silicon-based quantum photonic circuits with quantum light sources

Lingjie Yu; Chenzhi Yuan; Renduo Qi; Yidong Huang; Wei Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.376805

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 3, 235(2020)

Hybrid waveguide scheme for silicon-based quantum photonic circuits with quantum light sources Spotlight on Optics

Lingjie Yu¹, Chenzhi Yuan^1,2, Renduo Qi¹, Yidong Huang^1,3,4, and Wei Zhang^1,3,4、*

¹Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Beijing Innovation Center for Future Chips, Electronic Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

²Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China

³Frontier Science Center for Quantum Information, Beijing 100084, China

⁴Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing 100193, China

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Paper Information

Category: Quantum Optics

Received: Sep. 9, 2019

Accepted: Dec. 16, 2019

Published Online: Feb. 10, 2020

The Author Email: Wei Zhang (zwei@tsinghua.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.376805

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