Microstructured fiber source of photon pairs at widely separated wavelengths.
We demonstrate a source of photon pairs with widely separated wavelengths, 810 and 1548 nm, generated through spontaneous four-wave mixing in a microstructured fiber. The second-order autocorrelation function g((2))(0) was measured to confirm the nonclassical nature of a heralded single-photon source constructed from the fiber. The microstructured fiber presented herein has the interesting property of generating photon pairs with wavelengths suitable for a quantum repeater able to link free-space channels with fiber channels, as well as for a high-quality telecommunication wavelength heralded single photon source. It also has the advantage of potentially low-loss coupling into standard optical fiber. These reasons make this photon pair source particularly interesting for long-distance quantum communication.
Slater
Joshua A
JA
Institute for Quantum Information Science (IQIS), Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary,2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada. jslater@qis.ucalgary.ca
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Kudlinski
Alexandre
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Bouwmans
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Lacroix
Suzanne
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