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Efficiently Generation of Correlated Photon Pairs in Microstructure Fibers

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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.
Conference Dates
May 22-23, 2005
Conference Title
CLEO Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Keywords

coincidence, four-wave mixing, microstructure fiber, nonclassicality, parametric amplification

Citation

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 December 6, 2024)

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Created May 22, 2005, Updated February 17, 2017