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A Wafer-Scale Heterogeneous III-V-on-Silicon Nitride Quantum Photonic Platform

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17738v1
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 01:39:06 GMT
Title: A Wafer-Scale Heterogeneous III-V-on-Silicon Nitride Quantum Photonic Platform
Abstract summary: Integration of gain and strongly nonlinear materials with ultra-low-loss silicon nitride (SiN) photonics offers a route to scalable quantum circuits.<n>We demonstrate a wafer-scale III-V-on-SiN quantum photonic platform that directly integrates III-V layers to foundry-fabricated SiN circuits.
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Abstract: Heterogeneous integration of gain and strongly nonlinear materials with ultra-low-loss silicon nitride (SiN) photonics offers a route to scalable quantum circuits, but concurrent wafer-scale manufacturability, low interlayer loss, and high performance have been challenging to realize. Here we demonstrate a wafer-scale III-V-on-SiN quantum photonic platform that directly integrates III-V layers to foundry-fabricated SiN circuits. The SiN layer provides 200-300 nm thick waveguides with $<1$ dB/m loss and a mature passive photonics ecosystem, while III-V materials provide large $χ^{\left(2\right)}$ and $χ^{\left(3\right)}$ nonlinearities for parametric gain, frequency conversion and quantum light generation. Adiabatic interlayer couplers yield $<25$ mdB loss to InGaP waveguides and resonators with intrinsic quality factors exceeding $10^6$, enabling $15\times$ brighter entanglement sources and efficient nonlinear conversion on SiN. Integrated components--including low-loss beam splitters, waveguide crossers, and tunable interferometers--are complemented by III-V lasers and InP photodetectors with amplifiers achieving up to $99^{+1}_{-12}\%$ quantum efficiency and $3$ GHz bandwidth. This architecture unites ultra-efficient sources, nonlinear elements and detectors on a wafer-scale, low-loss platform, establishing a path toward large-scale, low-noise quantum photonic systems.

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