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Don’t worry, be happy: A look at undesirable nonlinear effects in integrated photon pair sources based on spontaneous four-wave mixing

L. G. Helt, Michael J. Steel, John E. Sipe

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

We theoretically demonstrate that if pump powers are kept low enough to suppress multi-pair events in integrated photon pair generation via spontaneous four-wave mixing, many other nonlinear effects are often also constrained to negligible levels.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2013.qth3c.3

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