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Intense spectrally broad-band twin beams from poled nonlinear crystals

Jan Peřina

Published Oct 12, 2018• 4 citations
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Abstract

Abstract Properties of intense twin beams generated in parametric down-conversion in periodically poled LiNbO3 crystals and their chirped variants by intense pump fields are analyzed along the model of intense parametric down-conversion that allows for pump depletion and uses the dual spatio-spectral Schmidt modes. Spectral and spatial intensity auto- and cross-correlation functions are determined as they depend on the pump power. Temporal correlations in intense twin beams at the fs time scale are investigated using the Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer and the process of sum-frequency generation.

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10.1038/s41598-018-33546-0

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