[WP-G] Poster Session 2

[WP-G-1] Generation of Single-Mode Squeezed Vacuum Using a Silicon Optical Waveguide

○Mashu Hifumi¹, Shogo Kimura¹, Fan Yang¹, Makoto Okano², Mitsuru Takenaka³, Hirohito Yamada¹, Nobuyuki Matsuda¹ (¹Tohoku Univ., ²National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, ³The Univ. of Tokyo)

Keywords:

Single-photon and quantum entangled photon-pair sources,Silicon photonic and nanophotonic devices for computing applications,Photonic quantum information processing

We generate single-mode squeezed vacuum from a silicon optical waveguide with a collinear dual-wavelength pump pulse source. The squeezed vacuum exhibits a self-intensity correlation function as large as 1.3×10³ demonstrating non-classical photon statistics.