A semiconductor source of counterpropagating twin photons: a versatile device allowing the control of the two-photon state. (English) Zbl 1175.78019
Summary: We report on an integrated source of twin photons at telecom wavelength operating at room temperature, in which a pump beam impinging on top of an AlGaAs waveguide generates two counterpropagating, orthogonally polarized guided modes by parametric fluorescence. This scheme allows an unprecedented flexibility in controlling the quantum properties of the emitted photons, by a simple shaping of the spatial and spectral profiles of the pump. The source versatility permits us to tailor the degree of frequency correlation and the spectrum of the emitted photons.
MSC:
78A60 | Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics |
81V80 | Quantum optics |
78A50 | Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory |
81P68 | Quantum computation |
82D37 | Statistical mechanics of semiconductors |
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