DocumentCode
1769896
Title
High visibility two-photon interference of entangled photons from a quasi-phase-matched AlGaAs waveguide
Author
Sarrafi, Peyman ; Zhu, Eric ; Holmes, B.M. ; Hutchings, D.C. ; Aitchison, Stewart ; Li Qian
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
fYear
2014
fDate
8-13 June 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate time-frequency entanglement of photon pairs produced in a cw-pumped quasi-phased-matched AlGaAs superlattice waveguide, producing 8×106 pairs/s with 96.0 ± 0.7% visibility without background subtraction, highest known visibility by far in AlGaAs waveguides.
Keywords
III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; gallium arsenide; optical multilayers; optical phase matching; optical pumping; optical waveguides; quantum entanglement; quantum optics; superlattices; two-photon processes; AlGaAs; cw-pumped quasiphase-matched AlGaAs waveguide; entangled photons; high visibility two-photon interference; time-frequency photon pair entanglement; visibility; Educational institutions; Interference; Optical frequency conversion; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Superlattices;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Type
conf
Filename
6988598
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