Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Out, Lost, or Broken: Photon Pairs from a Lossy Resonator

Milica Banić, Luca Zatti, Marco Liscidini, John E. Sipe

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations

Abstract

We study the generation of photon pairs via spontaneous four-wave mixing in a resonant integrated system with scattering loss. We study the effect of loss on the pair generation rates and the biphoton wavefunctions.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2022.jtu3a.20

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