| Author(s): |
Shellee D. Dyer; Burm Baek; Sae Woo Nam; |
| Title: |
High-brightness, low-noise, all-fiber photon pair source |
| Published: |
June 04, 2009 |
| Abstract: |
We demonstrate an all-fiber photon pair source for the critical telecom C-band. We achieve high pair generation rates in excess of 10 MHz while maintaining coincidence-to-accidental ratios (CARs) greater than 100. This is one of the brightest and lowest-noise photon pair sources ever demonstrated. We achieve the high pair rate through CW-pumped spontaneous four-wave mixing in dispersion-shifted fiber. We achieve the high CAR by cooling the fiber to 4 K to suppress the Raman generation and detecting the photons with low jitter and low dark count superconducting single-photon detectors. |
| Citation: |
Optics Express |
| Volume: |
17 |
| Issue: |
12 |
| Pages: |
pp. 10290 - 10297 |
| Keywords: |
nonlinear optics; quantum optics |
| Research Areas: |
Quantum Optics |
| PDF version: |
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