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Optics Express

  • Editor: C. Martijn de Sterke
  • Vol. 19, Iss. 1 — Jan. 3, 2011
  • pp: 55–65

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Engineered optical nonlinearity for quantum light sources

Agata M. Brańczyk, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Thomas M. Stace, Tim C. Ralph, and Andrew G. White  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 1, pp. 55-65 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.000055


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Abstract

Many applications in optical quantum information processing benefit from careful spectral shaping of single-photon wave-packets. In this paper we tailor the joint spectral wave-function of photons created in parametric downconversion by engineering the nonlinearity profile of a poled crystal. We design a crystal with an approximately Gaussian nonlinearity profile and confirm successful wave-packet shaping by two-photon interference experiments. We numerically show how our method can be applied for attaining one of the currently most important goals of single-photon quantum optics, the creation of pure single photons without spectral correlations.

© 2011 Optical Society of America

OCIS Codes
(190.4410) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, parametric processes
(270.5585) Quantum optics : Quantum information and processing

ToC Category:
Quantum Optics

History
Original Manuscript: November 12, 2010
Revised Manuscript: December 9, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: December 9, 2010
Published: December 20, 2010

Citation
Agata M. Brańczyk, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Thomas M. Stace, Tim C. Ralph, and Andrew G. White, "Engineered optical nonlinearity for quantum light sources," Opt. Express 19, 55-65 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-19-1-55


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