The realization of efficient and miniature source of entangled photon pairs stills remains a challenge. In this work, we experimentally studied the possibility to enhance the process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion by surface plasmon polaritons. The details of the experimental setup will be discussed along with theoretical calculations of the enhancement factor.
@article{arxiv.1804.02166,
title = {Steps towards the experimental realization of surface plasmon polariton enhanced spontaneous parametric down-conversion},
author = {Ardi Loot and Ilmo Sildos and Valter Kiisk and Tavo Romann and Vladimir Hizhnyakov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.02166},
year = {2018}
}