Microcavities with high Q factor and small mode volume have the potential to be efficient and compact sources of photon pairs. Here, we demonstrate on-chip photon-pair generation by spontaneous four-wave mixing in a silica microtoroidal cavity and obtain a coincidence-to-accidental ratio of 7.4 ± 0.1 with a pump power of 46 µ W. The heralded photons also exhibit antibunching characterized by autocorrelation function values of g c ( 2 ) ( 0 ) = 0.57 ± 0.03 < 1 . Comparing with a scaling model, the main noise source is found to be spontaneous Raman scattering in the cavity. This work opens a new possible means for realizing integrated nonclassical photon sources based on silica photonic circuits toward scalable quantum technologies.
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Hashimoto, Y., Goban, A., Hirabayashi, Y., Kobayashi, Y., Araki, T., & Aoki, T. (2021). On-chip photon-pair generation in a silica microtoroidal cavity. Optics Express, 29(3), 3533. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.414037
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