Optimizing focused pump beam characteristics for maximum correlated photon pairs in non-collinear degenerate parametric down conversion

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Optimizing focused pump beam characteristics for maximum correlated photon pairs in non-collinear degenerate parametric down conversion

Year : 2017

Publisher : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

Source Title : 2015 Workshop on Recent Advances in Photonics, WRAP 2015

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Abstract

We investigate the methods to obtain maximum correlated photon pairs generated in Type I spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) with focused pump beam. We study the effect of pump focusing on the photon collection efficiency of signal and idler modes. The correlated photon pair collection efficiency decreases asymptotically with input pump beam focusing parameter [1]. The results obtained here are expected to be useful in designing appropriate optical fibers for generating efficient entangled photon sources for quantum information applications.