Integrated contra-directional coupler for NV-centers photon filtering

  • Ilia Elmanov ,
  • Anna Elmanova ,
  • Vadim Kovalyuk ,
  • Pavel An,
  • Gregory Goltsman
  • a,b,c,d,e Department of Physics, Moscow State Pedagogical University, 119435, Russia
  • National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow 101000, Russia
Cite as
Elmanova A., Elmanov I., Kovalyuk V., An P., Goltsman G. (2020). Integrated contra-directional coupler for NV-centers photon filtering. Proceedings of the 32nd European Modeling & Simulation Symposium (EMSS 2020), pp. 354-360. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46354/i3m.2020.emss.052

Abstract

We modelled an integrated optical contra-directional coupler on silicon nitride platform. Performance of the filter was studied depending on different parameters, including the grating period and the height of teeth of the Bragg grating near 637 nm operation wavelength. The obtained results can be used for a design and fabrication of quantum photonic integrated circuits with on-chip single-photon NV-centers in nanodiamonds. 

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