Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Mode-locked Phase Coherent Singly-Resonant Biphoton Frequency Comb

Kai-Chi Chang, Xiang Cheng, Murat Can Sarihan, Wenting Wang, Franco N. C. Wong, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Chee Wei Wong

Published Jan 1, 2022• 1 citation

Abstract

We observed evidence of spectral-phase-coherence in a singly-resonant biphoton frequency comb’s second-order cross-correlation function, and we verified the state’s time-energy entanglement by measuring Franson interference in 2 time-bins that violate the Bell inequality.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2022.fth5o.4

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