Back to Publications List       Efficient generation of tunable photon pairs at 0.8 and 1.6 µm E. J. Mason, M. A. Albota, F. König, and F. N. C. Wong Opt. Lett. 27 , 2115 (2002). Abstract We demonstrate efficient generation of collinearly propagating, highly nondegenerate photon pairs in a periodically poled lithium niobate cw parametric downconverter with an inferred pair generation rate of 1.4 3 10^7/s/mW of pump power. Detection of an 800-nm signal photon triggers a thermoelectrically cooled 20%- efficient InGaAs avalanche photodiode for the detection of the 1600-nm conjugate idler photon. Using single-mode fibers as spatial mode filters, we obtain a signal-conditioned idler-detection probability of ~3.1%.         Home | About the Program | Our Research | Publications | People Related MURIs | Contact © Massachusetts Institute of Technology