7 February 2022 Compact, single-mode fiber-coupled, correlated photon pair source based on type-I beta-barium borate crystal
Csaba T. Holló, Tamás Sarkadi, Máté Galambos, Dániel Bíró, Attila Barócsi, Pál Koppa, Gábor Erdei
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Abstract

A small, portable, high-flux correlated photon-pair source has been designed and constructed from simple opto-mechanical parts. Unique to this device is its straightforward alignment process, together with the direct coupling of signal and idler photons into polarization-maintaining single-mode optical fibers. Spontaneous parametric down-conversion is used to produce photon pairs in β-barium borate (BBO) at a center wavelength of 810 nm. Owing to the applied type-I phase-matching, coincident photons have identical polarization. The estimated fiber-coupling efficiency is 51%, the measured photon and coincidence flux are 636 and 130 kHz/mW, respectively, normalized to pump power (44 mW). The source has an extremely wide wavelength spectrum of 202-nm FWHM, measured at the fiber output, which limits the actual heralding ratio to 20%.

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Csaba T. Holló, Tamás Sarkadi, Máté Galambos, Dániel Bíró, Attila Barócsi, Pál Koppa, and Gábor Erdei "Compact, single-mode fiber-coupled, correlated photon pair source based on type-I beta-barium borate crystal," Optical Engineering 61(2), 025101 (7 February 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.61.2.025101
Received: 5 October 2021; Accepted: 7 January 2022; Published: 7 February 2022
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KEYWORDS
Crystals

Sensors

Optical engineering

Single mode fibers

Optical filters

Photon polarization

Laser crystals

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