Frontiers in Optics

Towards the generation of entangled photon pairs using a tapered fiber coupler

Lambert Giner, Xinru Cheng, Chams Baker, Jefferson Flórez, Duncan G. England, Philip J. Bustard, Benjamin Sussman, Xiaoyi Bao, Jeff S. Lundeen

Published Jan 1, 2016• 0 citations

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Abstract

We present the first steps towards the generation of entanglement photon pairs by spontaneous four wave mixing inside a microcoupler device made by tapering two touching silica fibers until their core diameter reaches a few micrometers.

DOI: 10.1364/fio.2016.jw4a.14

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