Sherkunov, Y., Whittaker, D.M. and Fal'ko, V.I. (2017) Optical source of individual pairs of colour-conjugated photons. Scientific Reports, 7. 11418. ISSN 2045-2322
Abstract
We theoretically demonstrate that Kerr nonlinearity in optical circuits can lead to both resonant four-wave mixing and photon blockade, which can be used for high-yield generation of high-fidelity individual photon pairs with conjugated frequencies. We propose an optical circuit, which, in the optimal pulsed-drive regime, would produce photon pairs at the rate up to 5 × 105 s−1 (0.5 pairs per pulse) with g(2)(0)<10–2g(2)(0)<10−2 for one of the conjugated frequencies. We show that such a scheme can be utilised to generate colour-entangled photons.
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Nov 2017 12:16 |
Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2017 12:16 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11740-w |
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Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
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Identification Number: | 10.1038/s41598-017-11740-w |
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