Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

A nonlinear waveguide array with inhomogeneous poling pattern for the generation of photon pairs

Francesco Lenzini, James Titchener, Sachin Kasture, Alexander N. Poddubny, Andreas Boes, Ben Haylock, Matteo Villa, Arnan Mitchell, Alexander S. Solntsev, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Mirko Lobino

Published Jan 1, 2016• 1 citation

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Abstract

We present the realization of an inhomogeneously poled nonlinear waveguide array for the generation of photon pairs with integrated pump filtering. The biphoton wave-function produced from the device is characterized using reversed sum-frequency generation measurements.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2016.fth4a.1

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