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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Generation and characterization of factorable biphotons with 99% spectral purity

Changchen Chen, Bo Cao, Murphy Yuezhen Niu, Feihu Xu, Zheshen Zhang, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Franco N. C. Wong

Published Jan 1, 2017• 0 citations
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Abstract

We generate biphotons via pulsed spontaneous parametric downconversion under extended Gaussian phase matching, and measure their joint spectral intensity at high resolution using a low-loss dispersion compensation module to obtain a 99% heralded-state spectral purity.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2017.fw4e.1

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