Super spontaneous four-wave mixing in an array of silicon microresonators
Abstract
Composite optical systems can show compelling collective dynamics. For instance, the cooperative decay of quantum emitters into a common radiation mode can lead to superradiance, where the emission rate of the ensemble is larger than the sum of the rates of the individual emitters. Here, we report experimental evidence of super spontaneous four-wave mixing (super SFWM), an analogous effect for the generation of photon pairs in a parametric nonlinear process on an integrated photonic device. We study this phenomenon in an array of microring resonators on a silicon photonic chip coupled to bus waveguides. We measured a cooperative pair generation rate that always exceeds the incoherent sum of the rates of the individual resonators. We investigate the physical mechanisms underlying this collective behaviour, clarify the impact of loss, and address the aspects of fundamental and technological relevance of our results.
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@article{arxiv.2209.12641,
title = {Super spontaneous four-wave mixing in an array of silicon microresonators},
author = {Massimo Borghi and Federico Andrea Sabattoli and Houssein El Dirani and Laurene Youssef and Camille Petit-Etienne and Erwine Pargon and J. E. Sipe and Amideddin Mataji-Kojouri and Marco Liscidini and Corrado Sciancalepore and Matteo Galli and Daniele Bajoni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.12641},
year = {2022}
}