Physics
Scientific paper
Mar 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006njph....8...38s&link_type=abstract
New Journal of Physics, Volume 8, Issue 3, pp. 38 (2006).
Physics
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Scientific paper
Periodically poled crystals, such as periodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate (PPKTP) or lithium niobate, recently became more attractive because of their high efficiency for producing a photon pair in both cw and pulse cases. The time uncertainty of photon pair creation in a crystal is crucial for many important applications. In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate that the time uncertainty of the photon pair creation in a PPKTP crystal is much larger than the coherence time of a femtosecond pump laser by using phase-sensitive two-photon interference using a Michelson interferometer, which means the femtosecond laser cannot be considered as a clock that announces the creation of the photon pairs. The experimental results can be well explained by an effective Franson-type interferometer, if the PPKTP is regarded as a narrow band filter at the same time. Our experiment also shows a way by which the Franson-typetwo-photon interference phenomenon can be observed even if the coherence length of the pump laser is less than the path-length difference between the two interfering beams.
Shi Bao-Sen
Tomita Akihisa
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