Quantum Light Generation Based on GaN Microring toward Fully On-Chip Source

An integrated quantum light source is increasingly desirable in large-scale quantum information processing. Despite recent remarkable advances, a new material platform is constantly being explored for the fully on-chip integration of quantum light generation, active and passive manipulation, and detection. Here, for the first time, we demonstrate a gallium nitride (GaN) microring based quantum light generation in the telecom C-band, which has potential toward the monolithic integration of quantum light source. In our demonstration, the GaN microring has a free spectral range of 330 GHz and a near-zero anomalous dispersion region of over 100 nm. The generation of energy-time entangled photon pair is demonstrated with a typical raw two-photon interference visibility of 95.5±6.5%, which is further configured to generate a heralded single photon with a typical heralded second-order autocorrelation gH(2)(0) of 0.045±0.001. Our results pave the way for developing a chip-scale quantum photonic circuit.Received 19 October 2023Revised 12 December 2023Accepted 29 January 2024DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.133603© 2024 American Physical SocietyPhysics Subject Headings (PhySH)Research AreasQuantum entanglementSemiconductor quantum opticsQuantum Information, Science & Technology