Degenerate Photons from a Cryogenic Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion Source

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17428v1
• Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:50:34 GMT
• Title: Degenerate Photons from a Cryogenic Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion Source
• Authors: Nina Amelie Lange, Timon Schapeler, Jan Philipp H\"opker, Maximilian Protte, Tim J. Bartley
• Abstract summary: We generate degenerate photon pairs from spontaneous parametric down-conversion in titanium in-diffused waveguides in lithium niobate at cryogenic temperatures. Our results verify sufficient understanding and control of the cryogenic nonlinear process.
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• Abstract: We demonstrate the generation of degenerate photon pairs from spontaneous parametric down-conversion in titanium in-diffused waveguides in lithium niobate at cryogenic temperatures. Since the phase-matching cannot be temperature tuned inside a cryostat, we rely on a precise empirical model of the refractive indices when fabricating a fixed poling period. We design the phase-matching properties of our periodic poling to enable signal and idler photons at (1559.3 $\pm$ 0.6) nm, and characterize the indistinguishability of our photons by performing a Hong-Ou-Mandel interference measurement. Despite the effects of photorefraction and pyroelectricity, which can locally alter the phase-matching, we achieve cryogenic indistinguishable photons within 1.5 nm to our design wavelength. Our results verify sufficient understanding and control of the cryogenic nonlinear process, which has wider implications when combining quasi-phase-matched nonlinear optical processes with other cryogenic photonic quantum technologies, such as superconducting detectors.

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