TY - JOUR
T1 - State engineering of photon pairs produced through dual-pump spontaneous four-wave mixing
AU - Fang, Bin
AU - Cohen, Offir
AU - Moreno, Jamy B.
AU - Lorenz, Virginia
PY - 2013/2/11
Y1 - 2013/2/11
N2 - We study theoretically the joint spectral properties of photonpairs produced through spontaneous four-wave mixing (SFWM) with two spectrally distinct pump pulses in optical fibers. We show that, due to the group velocity difference between the pulses, the signature of the interaction can be significantly different from spontaneous parametric down-conversion or SFWM with a single pump pulse. Specifically, we study the case where temporal walk-off between the pumps enables a gradual turn-on and turn-off of the interaction. By utilizing this property, we develop a new approach towards tailoring the spectral correlations within the generated photon pairs, demonstrating the ability to produce factorable photon-pair states, and hence heralded single photons in a pure wave-packet. We show that the use of two pumps is advantageous over single-pump SFWM approaches towards this goal: the usage of the dual-pump configuration enables, in principle, the creation of completely factorable states without any spectral filtering, even in media for which single-pump SFWM tailoring techniques are unsatisfactory, such as standard polarization- maintaining fiber.
AB - We study theoretically the joint spectral properties of photonpairs produced through spontaneous four-wave mixing (SFWM) with two spectrally distinct pump pulses in optical fibers. We show that, due to the group velocity difference between the pulses, the signature of the interaction can be significantly different from spontaneous parametric down-conversion or SFWM with a single pump pulse. Specifically, we study the case where temporal walk-off between the pumps enables a gradual turn-on and turn-off of the interaction. By utilizing this property, we develop a new approach towards tailoring the spectral correlations within the generated photon pairs, demonstrating the ability to produce factorable photon-pair states, and hence heralded single photons in a pure wave-packet. We show that the use of two pumps is advantageous over single-pump SFWM approaches towards this goal: the usage of the dual-pump configuration enables, in principle, the creation of completely factorable states without any spectral filtering, even in media for which single-pump SFWM tailoring techniques are unsatisfactory, such as standard polarization- maintaining fiber.
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U2 - 10.1364/OE.21.002707
DO - 10.1364/OE.21.002707
M3 - Article
C2 - 23481727
AN - SCOPUS:84874042224
SN - 1094-4087
VL - 21
SP - 2707
EP - 2717
JO - Optics Express
JF - Optics Express
IS - 3
ER -