Bright filter-free source of indistinguishable photon pairs

Details Bright filter-free source of indistinguishable photon pairs Bright filter-free source of indistinguishable photon pairs

2008-06-25

arxiv.org/abs/0806.4090v2

Opt. Express 16, 18145-18151 (2008)

Physics

Quantum Physics

7 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1364/OE.16.018145

We demonstrate a high-brightness source of pairs of indistinguishable photons based on a type-II phase-matched doubly-resonant optical parametric oscillator operated far below threshold. The cavity-enhanced down-conversion output of a PPKTP crystal is coupled into two single-mode fibers with a mode coupling efficiency of 58%. The high degree of indistinguishability between the photons of a pair is demonstrated by a Hong-Ou-Mandel interference visibility of higher than 90% without any filtering at an instantaneous coincidence rate of 450 000 pairs/s per mW of pump power per nm of down-conversion bandwidth. For the degenerate spectral mode with a linewidth of 7 MHz at 795 nm a rate of 70 pairs/(s mW MHz) is estimated, increasing the spectral brightness for indistinguishable photons by two orders of magnitude compared to similar previous sources.

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