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The ability to engineer pairs of entangled photons is essential to quantum information science, and generating these states using spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in nano- and micrometer-scale materials offers numerous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Nicholas J. Sorensen , Vitaliy Sultanov , Maria V. Chekhova

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is one of the most versatile nonlinear optical techniques for the generation of entangled and correlated single-photon pairs. However, it suffers from very poor efficiency leading to extremely…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-15 Boyuan Jin , Dhananjay Mishra , Christos Argyropoulos

Miniaturised entangled photon sources are highly demanded for the development of integrated quantum photonics. Since the invention of subwavelength optical metasurfaces and their successes at replacing bulky optical components, the…

Creation of correlated photon pairs is one of the key topics in contemporary quantum optics. Here, we theoretically describe the generation of photon pairs in the process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a resonant spherical…

Integration of photon pairs nanosources is a major challenge for quantum technology. In this context, we develop a formalism for the investigation of Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion in hybrid structures that combine plasmonic…

Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (SPDC) holds a pivotal role in quantum physics, facilitating the creation of entangled photon pairs, heralded single photons and squeezed light, critical resources for many applications in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Muhammad Erew , Yuval Reches , Ofir Yesharim , Moshe Goldstein , Ady Arie , Haim Suchowski

The ability to generate quantum entangled photon pairs through spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) is playing a pivotal role in many applications in quantum technologies, including quantum communications, quantum computation, and…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-24 Tongmiao Fan , Jihua Zhang , Andrey A. Sukhorukov

Quantum photonic chips, which integrate quantum light sources alongside active and passive optical elements, as well as single photon detectors, show great potential for photonic quantum information processing and quantum technology. Mature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-14 Xiang Guo , Chang-ling Zou , Carsten Schuck , Hojoong Jung , Risheng Cheng , Hong X. Tang

We describe a cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric down-conversion (CE-SPDC) source for narrowband photon pairs with filters such that over 97% of the correlated photons are in a single mode of 4.3(4) MHz bandwidth. Type-II phase…

Efficiently generating photon pairs with high heralding efficiency and high single photon purity that are bandwidth matched to quantum emitters, quantum memories, and other matter-based qubits is critical for quantum networking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Ashwith Prabhu , Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt

As a tutorial, we examine the absolute brightness and number statistics of photon pairs generated in Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion (SPDC) from first principles. In doing so, we demonstrate how the diverse implementations of SPDC…

In this letter, we study spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in a periodically poled structure composed of two linearly uncoupled resonators that are nonlinearly coupled via a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The device does not…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-27 Alessia Stefano , Luca Zatti , Marco Liscidini

The photon statistics of Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (SPDC) exhibit dependencies on wavelength, pump power, and coincidence time. Notably, the average photon numbers were found to asymmetrically increase with increasing pump…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Jeffrey Carvalho , Chiran Wijesundara , Tim Thomay

Generating photon pairs via spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in nonlinear crystals is important for a wide range of quantum optics experiments with spectral properties such as their bandwidths often being a crucial concern.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Aron Vanselow , Paul Kaufmann , Helen M. Chrzanowski , Sven Ramelow

Here we demonstrate the efficient photon-pair generation via spontaneous parametric down conversion from a semiconductor metasurface supporting dual quasi-bound states in the continuum (quasi-BICs). In a simple metasurface design composed…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-22 Tingting Liu , Meibao Qin , Siqi Feng , Xu Tu , Tianjing Guo , Feng Wu , Shuyuan Xiao

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…

Spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) has proven to be a robust and prominent method for creating non-classical light sources of entangled single-photon pairs. However, such sources suffer from low efficiency due to the inherent…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-27 Sky Semone , Matthew J. Brandsema , Christos Argyropoulos

Third-order parametric down-conversion (TOPDC) describes a class of nonlinear interactions in which a pump photon is converted into a photon triplet. This process can occur spontaneously, or it can be stimulated by seeding fields. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Milica Banic , Marco Liscidini , J. E. Sipe

Spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) has been a key enabling technology in exploring quantum phenomena and their applications for decades. For instance, traditional SPDC, which splits a high energy pump photon into two lower energy…

Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion (SPDC), also known as parametric fluorescence, parametric noise, parametric scattering and all various combinations of the abbreviation SPDC, is a non-linear optical process where a photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Christophe Couteau
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