УДК: 535.14

Broad-band sources of single-photon pulses, based on spontaneous parametric scattering in nonlinear impurity crystals

Akatiev, D.O., Kalachev, A.A., Latypov, I.Z., Samartsev, V.V., Shkalikov, A.V.

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Акатьев Д.О., Калачев А.А., Латыпов И.З., Самарцев В.В., Шкаликов А.В. Узкополосные источники однофотонных импульсов на основе спонтанного параметрического рассеяния в примесных нелинейных кристаллах // Оптический журнал. 2014. Т. 81. № 8. С. 5–9.

Akatiev D.O., Kalachev A.A., Latypov I.Z., Samartsev V.V., Shkalikov A.V. Broad-band sources of single-photon pulses, based on spontaneous parametric scattering in nonlinear impurity crystals [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2014. V. 81. № 8. P. 5–9.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

D. O. Akat’ev, A. A. Kalachev, V. V. Samartsev, I. Z. Latypov, and A. V. Shkalikov, "Broad-band sources of single-photon pulses, based on spontaneous parametric scattering in nonlinear impurity crystals," Journal of Optical Technology. 81(8), 423-426 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.81.000423

Abstract:

This paper discusses the possibilities of using spontaneous parametric scattering (SPS) in impurity crystals with a periodic domain structure for the efficient generation of narrow-band single-photon pulses. Using a periodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate crystal doped with trivalent erbium ions as an example, it is shown that, in the case of a nonlinear crystal with a periodic domain structure, allowing the generation of photons on the opposite sides, the width of the SPS spectrum can be less than the free spectral zone of a single-cavity parametric generator based on this crystal. Such an SPS regime can be useful when creating narrow-band sources of single-photon states that can be recorded and reproduced in optical quantum-memory devices, as well as for combining SPS processes and quantum memory in a single medium—a nonlinear impurity crystal.

Keywords:

spontaneous parametric scattering, single-photon source

Acknowledgements:

This work was carried out with the partial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grants No. 12-02-00651 and 13-02-01090).

OCIS codes: 190.4410, 270.5585

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