Sub-megahertz narrow-band photon pairs at 606 nm for solid-state quantum memories

Jianji Liu; Jiachen Liu; Ping Yu; Guoquan Zhang

doi:10.1063/5.0006021

APL Photonics (Jun 2020)

Sub-megahertz narrow-band photon pairs at 606 nm for solid-state quantum memories

Jianji Liu,
Jiachen Liu,
Ping Yu,
Guoquan Zhang

Affiliations

Jianji Liu: The MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, School of Physics and TEDA Applied Physics Institute, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China
Jiachen Liu: The MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, School of Physics and TEDA Applied Physics Institute, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China
Ping Yu: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
Guoquan Zhang: The MOE Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, School of Physics and TEDA Applied Physics Institute, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0006021
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 5, no. 6
pp. 066105 – 066105-7

Abstract

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We report on the development of a source of ultra-narrow-band photon pairs using the cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric down conversion. The photon-pair source has a bandwidth of 265 ± 15 kHz at 606 nm and a spectral brightness of 216 ± 5 pairs/(s · mW · MHz) per longitudinal mode, which could be suitable for Pr3+ ion-based solid-state quantum memories.

Published in APL Photonics

ISSN: 2378-0967 (Online)
Publisher: AIP Publishing LLC
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics
Website: https://aplphotonics.aip.org

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