Designing high-power, octave spanning entangled photon sources for quantum spectroscopy

Szoke, S.; He, M.; Hickam, B. P.; Cushing, S. K.

doi:10.1063/5.0053688

Designing high-power, octave spanning entangled photon sources for quantum spectroscopy

Journal Article · Wed Jun 23 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Journal of Chemical Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0053688· OSTI ID:1853472

Szoke, S. ^[1]; He, M. ^[2]; ^[2]; ^[2]

California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States); OSTI
California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)

Entangled photon spectroscopy is a nascent field that has important implications for measurement and imaging across chemical, biology, and materials fields. Entangled photon spectroscopy potentially offers improved spatial and temporal-frequency resolutions, increased cross sections for multiphoton and nonlinear measurements, and new abilities in inducing or measuring quantum correlations. A critical step in enabling entangled photon spectroscopies is the creation of high-flux entangled sources that can use conventional detectors as well as provide redundancy for the losses in realistic samples. Here, we report a periodically poled, chirped, lithium tantalate platform that generates entangled photon pairs with ~10^-7 efficiency. For a near watt level diode laser, this results in a near μW-level flux. The single photon per mode limit that is necessary to maintain non-classical photon behavior is still satisfied by distributing this power over up to an octave-spanning bandwidth. The spectral–temporal photon correlations are observed via a Michelson-type interferometer that measures the broadband Hong–Ou–Mandel two-photon interference. A coherence time of 245 fs for a 10 nm bandwidth in the collinear case and a coherence time of 62 fs for a 125 nm bandwidth in the non-collinear case are measured using a CW pump laser and, essentially, collecting the full photon cone. We outline in detail the numerical methods used for designing and tailoring the entangled photons source, such as changing center wavelength or bandwidth, with the ultimate aim of increasing the availability of high-flux UV–Vis entangled photon sources in the optical spectroscopy community.

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Research Organization:: California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0020151

OSTI ID:: 1853472

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2572779

Journal Information:: Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal Name: Journal of Chemical Physics Journal Issue: 24 Vol. 154; ISSN 0021-9606

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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