Optical emulation of photon-pair generation in nonlinear lossy waveguides

Markus Gräfe; Diana A. Antonosyan; Alexander S. Solntsev; Andrey A. Sukhorukov; Alexander Szameit

doi:10.1209/0295-5075/118/54001

Optical emulation of photon-pair generation in nonlinear lossy waveguides

Markus Gräfe, Diana A. Antonosyan, Alexander S. Solntsev, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Alexander Szameit

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We establish theoretically and demonstrate experimentally that photon-pair generation through spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a nonlinear waveguide with scattering or material losses can be effectively emulated by classical laser light propagation through a specially designed linear waveguide circuit. This platform can represent arbitrary photon and pump losses, with a potential for the emulation of non-Markovian decay. We characterize the photon-pair correlation spectrum and observe its characteristic transformation from the well-known sinc-shape in lossless waveguides towards a Lorentzian shape in the presence of photon loss.

Original language	English
Article number	54001
Journal	Europhysics Letters
Volume	118
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/118/54001
Publication status	Published - Jun 2017

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