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Engineering Photon Pair Generation in Microstructured Liquid-Core Fibers

Mina Afsharnia, Zhouping Lyu, Sina Saravi, Ramona Scheibinger, Kay Schaarschmidt, Jasleen Lugani, Markus Alexander Schmidt, Thomas Pertsch, Frank Setzpfandt

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations

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Abstract

We show theoretically that microstructured optical fibers filled with nonlinear liquids are capable of generating photon-pairs with highly tunable properties, suitable for applications in quantum spectroscopy and as sources of heralded single photons.

DOI: 10.1364/iprsn.2020.jm2e.2

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