Classical imaging with undetected photons using four-wave mixing in silicon core fibers

M. Huang; D. Wu; H. Ren; L. Shen; T. W. Hawkins; J. Ballato; U. J. Gibson; M. Beresna; R. Slavík; J. E. Sipe; M. Liscidini; A. C. Peacock

doi:10.1364/PRJ.473239

Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 2, 137(2023)

Classical imaging with undetected photons using four-wave mixing in silicon core fibers

M. Huang^1、*, D. Wu¹, H. Ren², L. Shen³, T. W. Hawkins⁴, J. Ballato⁴, U. J. Gibson⁴, M. Beresna¹, R. Slavík¹, J. E. Sipe⁵, M. Liscidini⁶, and A. C. Peacock¹

Author Affiliations

¹Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

²School of Optoelectronic Engineering and Instrumentation Science, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China

³Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

⁴Centre for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, USA

⁵Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A7, Canada

⁶Department of Physics, University of Pavia, I-27100 Pavia, Italy

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Paper Information

Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Aug. 19, 2022

Accepted: Oct. 22, 2022

Published Online: Jan. 10, 2023

The Author Email: M. Huang (M.Huang@soton.ac.uk)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.473239

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