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High-brightness, low-noise, all-fiber photon pair source

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Shellee D. Dyer, Burm Baek, Sae Woo Nam

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
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

nonlinear optics, quantum optics
Quantum information science

Citation

Dyer, S. , Baek, B. and Nam, S. (2009), High-brightness, low-noise, all-fiber photon pair source, Optics Express, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=902279 (Accessed October 20, 2025)

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Created June 4, 2009, Updated February 19, 2017
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