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纠缠光子源有效光纤耦合的预探测特性选择

Selecting the pre-detection characteristics for effective fiber coupling of entangled photon sources

Ali Anwar, Chithrabhanu P, Salla Gangi Reddy, Nijil Lal, R. P. Singh

摘要:

光子模式在表征光的量子源中具有重要作用。光纤中自发参量下转换(SPDC)过程中获得的各种光子模式的适当耦合是产生有效纠缠光子源的必要条件。影响SPDC中双光子模式耦合的两个主要预探测因素是泵浦光聚焦参数和晶体厚度。本文给出了抽运聚焦对BBO晶体条件下转换光子模影响的数值计算和实验结果。实验验证了双光子耦合效率随泵浦光聚焦参数的变化而渐近下降。我们将这种行为归因于(a)下转换光子的空间分布与泵浦光束聚焦参数的不对称性和(b)由于泵浦光束的聚焦而引入的双光子模式的椭圆率。我们还显示实验的椭圆率,以及量化的不对称性与泵浦聚焦参数。这些结果可能是有用的,在选择最佳的条件下转换过程中产生的纠缠光子的量子信息应用的有效来源。

英文摘要:

Photon modes have an important role in characterizing the quantum sources of light. Proper coupling of various photon modes obtained in spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) process in optical fibers is essential to generate an effective source of entangled photons. The two main pre-detection factors affecting the biphoton mode coupling in SPDC are the pump beam focusing parameter and the crystal thickness. We present the numerical and experimental results on the effect of pump focusing on conditional down-converted photon modes for a Type-I BBO crystal. We experimentally verify that biphoton coupling efficiency decreases asymptotically with pump beam focusing parameter. We attribute this behaviour to (a) the asymmetry in the spatial distribution of down-converted photons with the pump beam focusing parameter and (b) the ellipticity of biphoton modes introduced due to the focusing of the pump beam. We also show experimentally the ellipticity as well as quantify the asymmetry with the pump focusing parameter. These results may be useful in selecting optimum conditions in the down-conversion process for generating efficient sources of entangled photons for quantum information applications.

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