All-silicon quantum light source by embedding an atomic emissive center in a nanophotonic cavity
/ Authors
W. Redjem, Y. Zhiyenbayev, Wayesh Qarony, V. Ivanov, C. Papapanos, Wei Liu, K. Jhuria, Zakaria Y. Al Balushi, S. Dhuey, A. Schwartzberg
and 3 more authors
/ Abstract
Silicon is the most scalable optoelectronic material but has suffered from its inability to generate directly and efficiently classical or quantum light on-chip. Scaling and integration are the most fundamental challenges facing quantum science and technology. We report an all-silicon quantum light source based on a single atomic emissive center embedded in a silicon-based nanophotonic cavity. We observe a more than 30-fold enhancement of luminescence, a near-unity atom-cavity coupling efficiency, and an 8-fold acceleration of the emission from the all-silicon quantum emissive center. Our work opens immediate avenues for large-scale integrated cavity quantum electrodynamics and quantum light-matter interfaces with applications in quantum communication and networking, sensing, imaging, and computing.
Journal: Nature Communications