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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Bragg gratings will improve signal-to-noise in χ(3) degenerate photon-pair generation

L. G. Helt, Agata M. Brańczyk, Viola Introini, Marco Liscidini, Michael J. Steel

Published Jan 1, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

Dual-pump photon-pair sources typically suffer from parasitic pair production. To circumvent this, we propose and design a source in which parasitic pairs are suppressed by proper engineering of photonic band gaps in a Bragg grating.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2016.fm1n.5

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