An integrated source of truly unentangled photons for efficient single photon heralding
Z. Vernon, M. Menotti, Christopher C. Tison, Jeffrey A. Steidle, Michael L. Fanto, Paul M. Thomas, Stefan F. Preble, Gregory A. Howland, A. Matthew Smith, Paul M. Alsing, Marco Liscidini, John E. Sipe · Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics · 2017
We show the generation of fully uncorrelated photon pairs in an integrated device. A fully separable state is obtained by independent control over the quality factors of the resonances involved in the parametric fluorescence process.