Frontiers in Optics

High-quality photon-pair and heralded single-photon generation using periodically-poled thin-film lithium niobate

Jie Zhao, Chaoxuan Ma, Michael Rüsing, Shayan Mookherjea

Published Jan 1, 2019• 0 citations

Abstract

Photon-pair generation is shown using periodically-poled thin-film lithium niobate waveguides, with coincidences-to-accidentals ratio CAR>67,000 at 41kHz pairs rate, and heralded single-photon generation with g(2)(0)<0.05 at 860kHz herald rate.

DOI: 10.1364/fio.2019.ftu6a.3

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