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Classical Optical Simulation of Bi-Photon Generation in Quadratic Waveguide Arrays

Markus Gräfe, Alexander S. Solntsev, Robert Keil, Andreas Tünnermann, Stefan Nolte, Alexander Szameit, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Yuri S. Kivshar

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

We suggest and demonstrate experimentally that evolution of classical light can simulate bi-photon generation through spontaneous parametric down-conversion and correlated quantum walks in waveguide arrays, including violation of Bell’s inequality.
DOI
10.1364/np.2012.nw2d.2

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