Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Engineering Joint Spectral Densities with Orbital Angular Momentum States in Optical Fibers

Xiao Liu, Dong Beom Kim, Virginia O. Lorenz, Siddharth Ramachandran

Published Jan 1, 2022• 1 citation

Abstract

We exploit the large modal space available in ring-core fibers supporting orbital angular momentum modes to demonstrate a versatile means to control the shape of photon-pair joint-spectral densities generated by spontaneous four-wave mixing.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2022.ff2j.1

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