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Volume 118, Number 5, June 2017
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Article Number | 54001 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/118/54001 | |
Published online | 07 August 2017 |
Optical emulation of photon-pair generation in nonlinear lossy waveguides
1 Institut für Physik, Universität Rostock - 18051 Rostock, Germany
2 Institute of Applied Physics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
3 Nonlinear Physics Centre, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
4 School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney - Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia
Received: 24 May 2017
Accepted: 13 July 2017
We establish theoretically and demonstrate experimentally that photon-pair generation through spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a nonlinear waveguide with scattering or material losses can be effectively emulated by classical laser light propagation through a specially designed linear waveguide circuit. This platform can represent arbitrary photon and pump losses, with a potential for the emulation of non-Markovian decay. We characterize the photon-pair correlation spectrum and observe its characteristic transformation from the well-known sinc-shape in lossless waveguides towards a Lorentzian shape in the presence of photon loss.
PACS: 42.82.Et – Waveguides, couplers, and arrays / 42.65.Lm – Parametric down conversion and production of entangled photons / 42.25.Bs – Wave propagation, transmission and absorption
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