All-fiber broadband photon pair generation in dispersion flattened highly non-linear fiber
Anadi Agnihotri, Pradeep Kumar Krishnamurthy
We report on a spontaneous four-wave mixing (SFWM) based broadband correlated photon pair generation using a dispersion flattened highly-nonlinear fiber (DF-HNLF). The DF-HNLF is pumped by a stable mode-locked laser (MLL) which generates pump pulses of 250 ps FWHM at a repetition rate of 94.509 MHz. The joint spectral intensity (JSI) data indicates photon pair generation across entire S, C, and L bands. The intrinsic photon pair generation rate, after accounting for spontaneous Raman scattering (SpRS), system loss, and detector dark counts, is ≈ 100kHz although due to detection gating limit we measured the rate to be 1 kHz at peak pump power of 70 mW. The use of an arbitrary waveform generator for establishing pump MLL and gating of the single-photon detectors (SPDs) allows for precise synchronization of generation and detection of photon pairs.
JSAP-OSA Joint Symposia•Jan 1, 2024•0 citations