Frontiers in Optics

Measurement of photon-pair generation in waveguide arrays with specialized poling

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

Published Jan 1, 2016• 0 citations

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Abstract

We present the realization of an inhomogeneously poled nonlinear waveguide array for the generation of photon pairs. The device is characterized by coincidence counting and a novel method based on reversed sum-frequency generation measurements.

DOI: 10.1364/fio.2016.ftu5g.4

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