Title : 
Don´t worry, be happy: A look at undesirable nonlinear effects in integrated photon pair sources based on spontaneous four-wave mixing
         
        
            Author : 
Helt, L.G. ; Steel, Michael J. ; Sipe, J.E.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We theoretically demonstrate that if pump powers are kept low enough to suppress multi-pair events in integrated photon pair generation via spontaneous four-wave mixing, many other nonlinear effects are often also constrained to negligible levels.
         
        
            Keywords : 
integrated optics; multiwave mixing; optical pumping; quantum optics; integrated photon pair generation; integrated photon pair sources; multipair events; nonlinear effects; pump powers; spontaneous four-wave mixing; Absorption; Bandwidth; Dispersion; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optimized production technology; Photonics;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Jose, CA