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Efficiently Generation of Correlated Photon Pairs in Microstructure Fibers
Published
Author(s)
Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall, L Wang
Abstract
We report the efficient generation of correlated photon pairs by four-wave mixing in a 1.8 meter long microstructure fiber. The detected coincidence rate is 10,000/s with 0.8 nm collection bandwidth, the highest to date in a fiber-based photon source. The measured coincidence/accidental contrast is greater than 300:1, also the highest to date. We further examine the nonclassicality of the source as defined by the Zou-Wang-mandel inequality. The inequality is violated by 900 times the uncertainty.
Fan, J.
, Migdall, A.
and Wang, L.
(2005),
Efficiently Generation of Correlated Photon Pairs in Microstructure Fibers, CLEO Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
(Accessed October 15, 2025)