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Two-photon emission and correlations from a superlattice-based superconducting light-emitting diode

Shlomi Bouscher, Dmitry Panna, Krishna Balasubramanian, Ronen Jacovi, Ankit Kumar, Christian Schneider, Sven Höfling, Alex Hayat

Published Jan 1, 2023• 0 citations
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We demonstrate evidence of two-photon emission and photon pair correlations, resulting from injected Cooper-pairs in superconductor-semiconductor structures. Such structures can be utilized for multiple applications including enhanced two-photon gain, electrically-driven entangled-photon generation and Bell-state analyzers.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_fs.2023.fth1a.7

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