General and complete description of temporal photon correlations in cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric down-conversion
Mueller C, Ahlrichs A, Benson O (2020)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2020
Journal
Book Volume: 102
Article Number: 053504
Journal Issue: 5
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.102.053504
Abstract
Heralded single-photon sources are the most commonly used sources for optical quantum technology applications. There is strong demand for accurate prediction of their spectral features and temporal correlations with ever-increasing precision. This is particularly important in connection with the intrinsically stochastic photon-pair generation process in heralded sources. Here we present a complete theoretical description of the temporal correlation of a signal-idler, signal-signal, and signal-signal-idler coincidences of photons generated by continuous-wave pumped cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The theory excellently predicts the measurements, which has been experimentally confirmed in our setup utilizing single-photon detectors with high temporal resolution. This enables us to resolve and analyze the multiphoton correlation functions in great detail.
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APA:
Mueller, C., Ahlrichs, A., & Benson, O. (2020). General and complete description of temporal photon correlations in cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric down-conversion. Physical Review A, 102(5). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.102.053504
MLA:
Mueller, Chris, Andreas Ahlrichs, and Oliver Benson. "General and complete description of temporal photon correlations in cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric down-conversion." Physical Review A 102.5 (2020).
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