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Photon-pair Generation in Ordered and Disordered Arrays of Nonlinear Nanoparticles

Sergey Krasikov, Maximilian A. Weissflog, Thomas Pertsch, Frank Setzpfandt, Sina Saravi

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations
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We theoretically investigate photon-pair generation in planar arrays of point-like nonlinear sources, with periodic and disordered patterns. We investigate the pattern-dependent evolution of emission directionalities, and discover a regime for pattern-independent generation of polarization-entangled states.
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10.1364/quantum.2024.qw3a.29

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