Title :
Demonstration of high-visibility two-photon interference with a multimode waveguide source
Author :
Jachura, Michal ; Karpinski, Michal ; Radzewicz, Czeslaw ; Banaszek, Konrad
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Phys., Univ. of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Abstract :
We verified interferometrically generation of spatially pure photon pairs via spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a multimode nonlinear waveguide in the 800 nm spectral region, obtaining two-photon interference visibility robustly exceeding 90% without any spatial filtering.
Keywords :
light interference; optical waveguide theory; high-visibility two-photon interference; multimode nonlinear waveguide; multimode waveguide source; spatially pure photon pairs; spontaneous parametric down-conversion; Interference; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical polarization; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Wavelength measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
