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Intense ultra-broadband down-conversion from randomly poled nonlinear crystals

Jiŕí Svozilík, Jan Peřina

Published May 5, 2011• 0 citations

Abstract

Stochastic quasi-phase-matching of the process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion is analyzed. It is shown that spectral, temporal and spatial properties of photon pairs generated in randomly poled crystals are similar to those generated in chirped periodically-poled crystals. Especially, randomly poled crystals are capable to emit photon pairs with ultra-broad spectra.

DOI: 10.1117/12.886601

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