Abstract

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a new method of generating correlated photons in a microstructure fiber by means of a reversed degenerate four-wave-mixing process. Here one photon is annihilated from each of the bichromatic pump pulses to generate a pair of photons at the mean frequency. For a microstructure fiber as short as $1.5\mathrm{m}$ the measured coincidence counting rate is approximately eight times that of the accidental coincidences with a peak pump power of $0.25\mathrm{W}$.

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