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A Microstructure Fiber Two Photon Source With Conjugate Laser Pumps
Published
Author(s)
Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall, L Wang
Abstract
We present a systematic experimental study of generating correlated photon pairs using a reversed degenerate four-wave mixing process. By overlapping a pair of parallel- (or cross-) polarized laser pump pulses at conjugate frequencies in a microstructure fiber, parallel- or (cross-) polarized correlated photon pairs are generated at the middle frequency. The generation rate of correlated photons by four-wave mixing with parallel-polarized laser pumps in a 1.8 meter microstructure fiber is comparable or higher than that of a parametric down conversion process in a bulk-crystal at similar pump power levels.
conjugate frequency, four wave mixing, microstructure fiber
Citation
Fan, J.
, Migdall, A.
and Wang, L.
(2005),
A Microstructure Fiber Two Photon Source With Conjugate Laser Pumps, Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging, [online], https://doi.org/10.1117/12.612732
(Accessed October 15, 2025)