- Redjem, W;
- Zhiyenbayev, Y;
- Qarony, W;
- Ivanov, V;
- Papapanos, C;
- Liu, W;
- Jhuria, K;
- Al Balushi, ZY;
- Dhuey, S;
- Schwartzberg, A;
- Tan, LZ;
- Schenkel, T;
- Kanté, B
Silicon is the most scalable optoelectronic material but has suffered from its inability to generate directly and efficiently classical or quantum light on-chip. Scaling and integration are the most fundamental challenges facing quantum science and technology. We report an all-silicon quantum light source based on a single atomic emissive center embedded in a silicon-based nanophotonic cavity. We observe a more than 30-fold enhancement of luminescence, a near-unity atom-cavity coupling efficiency, and an 8-fold acceleration of the emission from the all-silicon quantum emissive center. Our work opens immediate avenues for large-scale integrated cavity quantum electrodynamics and quantum light-matter interfaces with applications in quantum communication and networking, sensing, imaging, and computing.