Autoheterodyne characterization of narrow-band photon pairs

We describe a technique to measure photon pair joint spectra by detecting the time-correlation beat note when nondegenerate photon pairs interfere at a beam splitter. The technique implements a temporal analog of the Ghosh-Mandel effect with one photon counter and a time-resolved Hong-Ou-Mandel inte...

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Autores: Prakash, Vindhiya|||0000-0002-9069-3634, Sierant, Aleksandra, Mitchell, Morgan W.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/366300
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/366300
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.043601
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Quantum optics--Measurement
Photon-photon interactions
Òptica quàntica
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física
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Sumario:We describe a technique to measure photon pair joint spectra by detecting the time-correlation beat note when nondegenerate photon pairs interfere at a beam splitter. The technique implements a temporal analog of the Ghosh-Mandel effect with one photon counter and a time-resolved Hong-Ou-Mandel interference with two. It is well suited to characterize pairs of photons, each of which can interact with a single atomic species, as required to study recently predicted photon-photon interaction in subwavelength atomic arrays. With this technique, we characterize photon pairs from cavity-enhanced parametric down-conversion with a bandwidth ˜ 5 MHz and frequency separation of ~200 MHz near the D_{1} line of atomic Rb.