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Nonlinear Optics

Nonlinear Quantum Walks at the Edge of Quadratic Waveguide Arrays

Alexander S. Solntsev, Frank Setzpfandt, Alex S. Clark, A. Schreiber, Fabian Katzschmann, Roland Schiek, W. Sohler, Christine Silberhorn, Thomas Pertsch, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Dragomir N. Neshev, Yuri S. Kivshar

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations

Abstract

We realize experimentally quantum walks of photon-pairs generated in a quadratic nonlinear waveguide array, and demonstrate that the pump distance from the edge strongly affects the spatial correlations through the interference from virtual biphoton sources.

DOI: 10.1364/nlo.2013.nw1a.3

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