Title :
Squeezing and Photon-Statistics Measurements of 1550-nm Light Generated by Down-Conversion in Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate
Author :
Hirano, K. ; Takahashi, Y. ; Namekata, N. ; Machida, S. ; Soderholm, J. ; Inoue, S. ; Kurimura, S.
Author_Institution :
Institute of Quantum Science, Nihon University, 1-8 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8308, Japan, email: jonas@ccsrg.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp
Abstract :
3 dB of measured squeezing is reported for pulsed 1550-nm light generated by down-conversion in bulk PPLN. Using different pump focuses, single- and coincidence-counts in agreement with both thermal and Poissonian photon-pair distributions were obtained.
Keywords :
Delta modulation; Lenses; Lithium niobate; Local oscillators; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical harmonic generation; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes, France
Print_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801396
