Two-photon joint temporal density measurements via ultrafast single-photon upconversion

Author

Kuzucu, Onur ; Wong, Franco N C ; Kurimura, Sunao ; Tovstonog, Sergey

Author_Institution

Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We have developed the technique of two-photon joint temporal density measurements for temporal state characterization, thus facilitating two-photon generation with high temporal entanglement or nearly factorizable outputs by controlling the ultrafast pump bandwidth.

Keywords

high-speed optical techniques; optical pumping; quantum entanglement; quantum optics; two-photon processes; temporal entanglement; temporal state characterization; two-photon generation; two-photon joint temporal density measurement; ultrafast pump bandwidth control; ultrafast single-photon upconversion; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Delay; Density measurement; Frequency measurement; Interference; Materials science and technology; Optical control; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pumping; (190.7220) Upconversion; (270.5290) Photon Statistics; (270.5585) Quantum information and processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225424