Integrated photon-pair sources with nonlinear optics

Y Wang, KD Jöns, Z Sun - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Assisted by the rapid development of photonic integrated circuits, scalable and versatile chip-
based quantum light sources with nonlinear optics are increasingly tangible for real-world …

Direct generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs in a poled fiber

EY Zhu, Z Tang, L Qian, LG Helt, M Liscidini, JE Sipe… - Physical review …, 2012 - APS
We experimentally demonstrate the direct generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs
in an optical fiber at room temperature by exploiting type-II phase-matched spontaneous …

High-average-power second-harmonic generation from periodically poled silica fibers

A Canagasabey, C Corbari, AV Gladyshev… - Optics Letters, 2009 - opg.optica.org
The generation of 236 mW of second-harmonic power in a 32-cm-long periodically poled
silica fiber, corresponding to an average conversion efficiency of 15.2±0.5%, is reported …

Loophole-free Bell test based on local precertification of photon's presence

A Cabello, F Sciarrino - Physical Review X, 2012 - APS
A loophole-free violation of Bell inequalities is of fundamental importance for demonstrating
quantum<? format?> nonlocality and long-distance device-independent secure …

Two-photon interference of temporally separated photons

H Kim, SM Lee, HS Moon - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
We present experimental demonstrations of two-photon interference involving temporally
separated photons within two types of interferometers: a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and a …

Stabilizing Brillouin fiber laser for applications in distributed BOTDA sensing

VV Spirin, CA Lopez-Mercado, P Mégret… - Optical Sensors …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Self-injection locking to an external fiber cavity is an efficient technique enabling drastic
linewidth narrowing and selfstabilization of semiconductor lasers. We introduce a simple …

Proposal for in-fiber generation of telecom-band polarization-entangled photon pairs using a periodically poled fiber

LG Helt, EY Zhu, M Liscidini, L Qian, JE Sipe - Optics letters, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We treat spontaneous parametric downconversion in a periodically poled fiber, quasi-phase
matched to allow for the generation of photon pairs at wavelengths within the low-loss …

Heralded generation of single photons in pure quantum states

L Zhang, C Söller, O Cohen, BJ Smith… - Journal of Modern …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Sources of single photons in pure quantum states are essential to many quantum optics
applications. We explore a technique, known as group-velocity matching, that enables the …

Self-calibrating fiber spectrometer for the measurement of broadband downconverted photon pairs

EY Zhu, C Corbari, PG Kazansky, L Qian - arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.01226, 2015 - arxiv.org
We experimentally demonstrate a simple method to measure the biphoton joint spectrum by
mapping the spectral information onto the temporal domain using a dispersive medium …

Microfiber-lithium niobate on insulator hybrid waveguides for efficient and reconfigurable second-order optical nonlinearity on a chip

AV Gorbach, W Ding - Photonics, 2015 - mdpi.com
We present an optical microfiber-lithium niobate on insulator (MF-LNOI) hybrid waveguide
for efficient second-order nonlinear processes. The structure combines the advantages of …