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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Spectrally Tailorable Photon Pairs Generated by Using Nonlinear Interferometer with Programmed Phase Shifts

Mingyi Ma, Liang Cui, Jiamin Li, Jie Su, Z. Y. Ou, Xiaoying Li

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

Photon pairs with flexibly tailorable spectral property are experimentally realized by using a fiber-based two-stage nonlinear interferometer scheme consisting of two pieces of dispersion-shifted fibers with a programmable optical filter in between.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2020.ff2d.5

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