Wide-span and tunable-wavelength photon pairs around 1.55 mu m from a silicon nanophotonic chip

Using a compact optically-pumped silicon nanophotonic chip consisting of coupled silicon microrings, we generate photon pairs in multiple pairs of wavelengths around 1.55 mu m. The wavelengths are tunable over several nanometers, demonstrating the capability to generate wavelength division multiplexed photon pairs at freely-chosen telecommunications-band wavelengths.