Fibre source of intrinsically time bandwidth limited photon pairs

Author

Fulconis, J. ; Halder, M. ; Clark, A. ; Cemlyn, B. ; Brien, J. L O ; Rarity, J.G. ; Xiong, C. ; Wadsworth, W.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Bristol, Bristol, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We investigate a new phase-matching scheme for pure state photon pair generation in birefringent photonic crystal fibres. We demonstrate 80% visibility non-classical interference between unfiltered photons coming from non-degenerate pairs and created in separate sources.

Keywords

birefringence; holey fibres; optical phase matching; photonic crystals; quantum entanglement; quantum optics; birefringent photonic crystal fibres; fibre source; nonclassical interference; nondegenerate entangled pairs; phase-matching scheme; pure state photon pair generation; time bandwidth-limited photon pairs; Arm; Bandwidth; Birefringence; Frequency conversion; Interference; Narrowband; Optical fiber polarization; Optical polarization; Photonic crystal fibers; Quantum computing; (060.4370) Fibers. Nonlinear optics, Fibers; (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

5225575