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High-efficient and high-purity photon sources are highly desired for quantum information processing. We report the design of a chip-scale hybrid SixNy and thin film periodically-poled lithium niobate waveguide for generating high-purity…

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) has shown great promise in the generation of pure and indistinguishable single photons. Photon pairs produced in bulk crystals are highly correlated in terms of transverse space and frequency.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Baghdasar Baghdasaryan , Fabian Steinlechner , Stephan Fritzsche

Entangled photon pairs are crucial resources for quantum information processing protocols. Via the process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), we can generate these photon pairs using bulk nonlinear crystals. Traditionally,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 Zi-Qi Zeng , Shi-Xin You , Zi-Xiang Yang , Chenzhi Yuan , Chenglong You , Rui-Bo Jin

We theoretically investigate the problem of finding optimal characteristics of photon pairs, produced in the spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) process, for fiber-based quantum communication (QC) protocols. By using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Miko\{l}aj Lasota , Piotr Kolenderski

The process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in nonlinear crystals makes it fairly easy to generate entangled photon states. It has been known for some time that the conversion efficiency can be improved by employing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Jonas Soderholm , Keiichi Hirano , Shigehiko Mori , Shuichiro Inoue , Sunao Kurimura

Parametric downconversion (PDC) is a technique of ubiquitous experimental significance in the production of non-classical, photon-number correlated twin beams. Standard theory of PDC as a two-mode squeezing process predicts and homodyne…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Wolfgang Mauerer , Malte Avenhaus , Wolfram Helwig , Christine Silberhorn

Entangled photon-pairs are a critical resource in quantum communication protocols ranging from quantum key distribution to teleportation. The current workhorse technique for producing photon-pairs is via spontaneous parametric down…

In this paper, we study the possible parametric down conversion processes in a periodically poled customized Lithium Niobate (LiNbO3) ridge waveguide. Our analysis of spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), first, with a Gaussian…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 Ramesh Kumar , Joyee Ghosh

We make a source of entangled photons (SEP) using spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in a non-linear crystal and study the spatial distribution of photon pairs obtained through the down-conversion of different modes of light…

The frequency correlation (or decorrelation) of photon pairs is of great importance in long-range quantum communications and photonic quantum computing. We experimentally characterize a spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) source,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-26 Thomas Lutz , Piotr Kolenderski , Thomas Jennewein

We interface a spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) crystal and a cold atomic ensemble and demonstrate a highly efficient quantum memory through polarization-encoded single-photon qubits. Specifically, narrowband heralded single…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Yu-Chih Tseng , Yan-Cheng Wei , Ying-Cheng Chen

State-of-the-art photon sources based on spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) currently rely on artificial structuring of the material nonlinearity to satisfy phase-matching conditions. This technique, known as periodic poling, is…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-21 Tim F. Weiss , Hamed Arianfard , Yang Yang , Alberto Peruzzo

On-chip generation of high-purity single photons is essential for scalable photonic quantum technologies. Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is widely used to generate photon pairs for heralded single-photon sources, but…

These comments contain two primary improvements to the aforementioned article: Where previously mentioned in passing in section 3.4 of our article, we now provide, using the same basic steps as in Bennink's paper, [Phys. Rev. A 81, 053805…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 James Schneeloch

Parametric down-conversion (PDC) offers the possibility to control the fabrication of non-Gaussian states such as Fock states. However, in conventional PDC sources energy and momentum conservation introduce strict frequency and photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. Laiho , K. N. Cassemiro , Ch. Silberhorn

Non-classical states of light, such as entangled photon pairs and number states, are essential for fundamental tests of quantum mechanics and optical quantum technologies. The most widespread technique for creating these quantum resources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-30 H. Hübel , D. R. Hamel , A. Fedrizzi , S. Ramelow , K. J. Resch , T. Jennewein

In this paper the coherence and crossing symmetry of the electromagnetic interaction of photons involved in the spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) phenomena in nonlinear crystals, are investigated. On this basis a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-23 D. B. Ion , P. Constantin , M. L. Ion

Stimulated parametric down-conversion (StimPDC) produces an idler beam that exhibits a phase conjugate of the spatial structure of the classical seed beam. Extending this effect to the single-photon regime can, in principle, enable the…

Multi-photon hyperentangement is of fundamental importance in optical quantum information processing. Existing theory and experiment producing multi-photon hyperentangled states have until now relied on the outcome post-selection, a…

The temperature dependence of the refractive indices of potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP) are shown to enable quasi-phasematched type II spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) with low temperature sensitivity. Calculations show the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Xin-Yi Pan , Christian Kurtsiefer , Alexander Ling , James A. Grieve