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Generation and Detection of Photon Pairs at 2.080 μm by Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion in a PPLN Crystal

Shashi Prabhakar, Taylor Shields, Damian Powell, Gregor G. Taylor, D. Morozov, Mehdi Haji Ebrahim, Michael Kues, Lucia Caspani, Corin B. E. Gawith, Robert H. Hadfield, Matteo Clerici

Published Jul 29, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report the generation and detection of photon pairs at 2.080 μm. We characterized the coincidence to accidental ratio for a source with potential applications in integrated quantum optics, away from the Silicon two-photon absorption.

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