| Author(s): |
Jingyun Fan; Alan L. Migdall; L Wang; |
| Title: |
Efficient Generation of Correlated Photon Pairs in a Microstructure Fiber |
| Published: |
December 15, 2005 |
| Abstract: |
We report efficient generation of correlated photon pairs through degenerate four-wave mixing in microstructure fibers. With 735.7 nm pump pulses producing conjugate signal (688.5 nm) and idler (789.8 nm) photons in an 1.8 m microstructure fiber, we detect photon pairs at a rate of 37.6 kHz with a coincidence/accidental contrast of 10:1 in a 0.7 nm collection bandwidth. This is the highest rate reported to date in a fiber-based photon source. The nonclassicality of this source, as defined by the Zou-Wang-Mandel inequality, is violated by 1100 times the uncertainty. |
| Citation: |
Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics) |
| Volume: |
30 |
| Issue: |
24 |
| Pages: |
pp. 3368 - 3370 |
| Keywords: |
coincidence;four-wave mixing;microstructure fiber;nonclassicality;parametric amplification |
| Research Areas: |
Entanglement, Quantum Optics, Quantum Information, Quantum Devices, Quantum Computing/Quantum Computation, Quantum Physics |
| PDF version: |
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