Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, University of Maryland , College Park, Maryland 20742, United States.
Laboratory for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland , College Park, Maryland 20740, United States.
Nano Lett. 2016 Nov 9;16(11):7061-7066. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03295. Epub 2016 Oct 17.
Interactions between solid-state quantum emitters and cavities are important for a broad range of applications in quantum communication, linear optical quantum computing, nonlinear photonics, and photonic quantum simulation. These applications often require combining many devices on a single chip with identical emission wavelengths in order to generate two-photon interference, the primary mechanism for achieving effective photon-photon interactions. Such integration remains extremely challenging due to inhomogeneous broadening and fabrication errors that randomize the resonant frequencies of both the emitters and cavities. In this Letter, we demonstrate two-photon interference from independent cavity-coupled emitters on the same chip, providing a potential solution to this long-standing problem. We overcome spectral mismatch between different cavities due to fabrication errors by depositing and locally evaporating a thin layer of condensed nitrogen. We integrate optical heaters to tune individual dots within each cavity to the same resonance with better than 3 μeV of precision. Combining these tuning methods, we demonstrate two-photon interference between two devices spaced by less than 15 μm on the same chip with a postselected visibility of 33%, which is limited by timing resolution of the detectors and background. These results pave the way to integrate multiple quantum light sources on the same chip to develop quantum photonic devices.
固态量子发射器与腔之间的相互作用对于量子通信、线性光学量子计算、非线性光子学和光子量子模拟等广泛的应用领域非常重要。这些应用通常需要将许多设备集成在单个芯片上,并使它们具有相同的发射波长,以便产生双光子干涉,这是实现有效光子-光子相互作用的主要机制。由于不均匀展宽和制造误差会随机化发射器和腔的共振频率,因此这种集成仍然极具挑战性。在这封信件中,我们展示了来自同一芯片上独立腔耦合发射器的双光子干涉,为这个长期存在的问题提供了一种潜在的解决方案。我们通过沉积和局部蒸发一层冷凝氮来克服制造误差导致的不同腔之间的光谱不匹配。我们集成了光学加热器,以便在每个腔中的单个点上以优于 3 μeV 的精度调谐到相同的共振。通过结合这些调谐方法,我们在同一芯片上演示了两个距离小于 15 μm 的器件之间的双光子干涉,其后选可见度为 33%,这受到探测器和背景的定时分辨率的限制。这些结果为在同一芯片上集成多个量子光源以开发量子光子器件铺平了道路。