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Spectrally Robust Photon-Pair Generation in Topological Waveguide Arrays
feeds.aps.org · By A. Zecchetto, J.-R. Coudevylle, M. Morassi, A. Lemaître, M. I. Amanti, S. Ducci & F. Baboux ·
The Brief
- Researchers report photon-pair generation in topological waveguide arrays.
- The approach is described as more robust to fabrication disorder than conventional designs.
- The authors position the work as a route to scalable, identical on-chip quantum light sources.
Why it matters
Fabrication variability is a major obstacle to producing many identical on-chip photon-pair sources, so a design that tolerates disorder could matter for scaling quantum photonic hardware.
Who’s affected
- quantum photonics researchers
- engineers building on-chip quantum light sources
- #quantum photonics
- #photon pairs
- #topological waveguides
- #integrated optics
- #fabrication disorder
Author(s): A. Zecchetto, J.-R. Coudevylle, M. Morassi, A. Lemaître, M. I. Amanti, S. Ducci, and F. Baboux Topological waveguide arrays make photon-pair generation more robust to fabrication disorder, providing a scalable route to building identical on-chip sources of quantum…
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Spectrally Robust Photon-Pair Generation in Topological Waveguide Arrays