Photon pair generation in lithium niobate waveguide periodically poled by femtosecond laser

Fan Dai; Qianqian Tian; Shuangyin Huang; Min Wang; Chenghou Tu; Yan Sheng; Yongnan Li; Hui-Tian Wang

doi:10.3788/COL202321.042701

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 4, 042701(2023)

Photon pair generation in lithium niobate waveguide periodically poled by femtosecond laser On the Cover

Fan Dai¹, Qianqian Tian¹, Shuangyin Huang¹, Min Wang¹, Chenghou Tu¹, Yan Sheng^2,3、*, Yongnan Li^1、**, and Hui-Tian Wang^4,5

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics and School of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China

²Laboratory of Infrared Materials and Devices, Research Institute of Advanced Technologies, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China

³Laser Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia

⁴National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

⁵Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

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Category: Quantum Optics and Quantum Information

Received: Oct. 17, 2022

Accepted: Nov. 25, 2022

Posted: Nov. 28, 2022

Published Online: Apr. 10, 2023

The Author Email: Yan Sheng (yan.sheng@anu.edu.au), Yongnan Li (liyongnan@nankai.edu.cn)

DOI:10.3788/COL202321.042701

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