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Nonlinear Optics

All-Fiber Telecom-Band Correlated Photon-Pair Source for 10 GHz Quantum Applications

Chuang Liang, Matthew Shin, Kim Fook Lee, Jun Chen, Prem Kumar

Published Jan 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a 9.95 GHz operated all-fiber source for generating telecom-band correlated photon pairs. Greater than 19 coincidences to accidentals ratio is observed with raw photon-counting data, i.e., without making any post-measurement corrections.
DOI
10.1364/nlo.2007.ma4

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