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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

The effects of self- and cross- phase modulation in the generation of bright twin beams using SPDC

Nicolás Quesada, John E. Sipe

Published Jan 1, 2017• 2 citations
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Abstract

We introduce a simple methodology to calculate the effects of self- and cross-phase modulation in SPDC photon generation. We show that these processes make SPDC less efficient in the low spatio-temporal mode number limit.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2017.jw2a.23

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