title: Super spontaneous four-wave mixing in single-channel side-coupled integrated spaced sequence of resonator structures.
abstract: We consider spontaneous four-wave mixing (SFWM) in a single-channel side-coupled integrated spaced sequence of resonators within a fully quantum formalism. We show that the probability of photon pair production can scale quadratically with the number of resonators, a phenomenon we call super SFWM, in analogy with super-radiant spontaneous emission. Remarkably, in this situation the spectral probability density of the generated photons is independent of the number of rings.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. lhelt@physics.utoronto.ca
authors.forename: L G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Helt
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Sipe
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liscidini