Quantum Information and Measurement (QIM)

Single-temporal-mode photon generation beyond the low-power regime

Colin J. McKinstrie, Jesper B. Christensen, Karsten K. Rottwitt, M. G. Raymer

Published Jan 1, 2017• 1 citation

Abstract

Nondegenerate four-wave mixing in a strongly-birefringent fiber generates signal and idler photons that are associated with only one pair of temporal modes, for a wide range of pump powers. Nonlinear phase modulation degrades the heralded-signal purity only slightly.

DOI: 10.1364/qim.2017.qw3c.6

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