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OPTICA
Volume 3, Issue 11, Pages 1274-1278Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.3.001274
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Canada Research Chairs
- Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
- Ontario Research Fund
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Silicon (Si) photonics is forming a fabless ecosystem, which is enabling low-cost and densely integrated components for optical communications and quantum information. We present a Si optical transmitter for polarization-encoded quantum key distribution (QKD). The chip was fabricated in a standard Si photonic foundry process and integrated together a pulse generator, intensity modulator, variable optical attenuator, and polarization modulator in a 1.3 mm x 3 mm die area. The devices in the photonic circuit meet the requirements for QKD. The transmitter was used in a proof-of-concept demonstration of the BB84 QKD protocol over a 5 km long fiber link. This work shows the potential of using foundry Si photonics for low-cost, wafer-scale fabricated components for quantum information. (C) 2016 Optical Society of America
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