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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Dual-Pump Design Enables Novel Photon-Pair Characterization and Engineering

Yujie Zhang, Ryan Spiniolas, Kai Shinbrough, Bin Fang, Offir Cohen, Virginia O. Lorenz

Published Jan 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a dual-pump spontaneous four-wave mixing photon-pair source for which we quantify the noise to determine the generation probability and collection efficiency directly, and that generates photons in pure quantum states.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2019.fth3d.4

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