Correlated photon-pair generation in a periodically poled MgO doped stoichiometric lithium tantalate reverse proton exchanged waveguide
Quantum Physics
2015-05-27 v2
Abstract
We demonstrate photon-pair generation in a reverse proton exchanged waveguide fabricated on a periodically poled magnesium doped stoichiometric lithium tantalate substrate. Detected pairs are generated via a cascaded second order nonlinear process where a pump laser at wavelength of 1.55 m is first doubled in frequency by second harmonic generation and subsequently downconverted around the same spectral region. Pairs are detected at a rate of 42 per second with a coincidence to accidental ratio of 0.7. This cascaded pair generation process is similar to four-wave-mixing where two pump photons annihilate and create a correlated photon pair.
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@article{arxiv.1103.3769,
title = {Correlated photon-pair generation in a periodically poled MgO doped stoichiometric lithium tantalate reverse proton exchanged waveguide},
author = {M. Lobino and G. D. Marshall and C. Xiong and A. S. Clark and D. Bonneau and C. M. Natarajan and M. G. Tanner and R. H. Hadfield and S. N. Dorenbos and T. Zijlstra and V. Zwiller and M. Marangoni and R. Ramponi and M. G. Thompson and B. J. Eggleton and J. L. O'Brien},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.3769},
year = {2015}
}