Spectrally Resolved Higher Order Photon Statistics of Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22883v1
• Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 21:33:32 GMT
• Title: Spectrally Resolved Higher Order Photon Statistics of Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion
• Authors: Jeffrey Carvalho, Chiran Wijesundara, Tim Thomay,
• Abstract summary: The photon statistics of Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion exhibit dependencies on wavelength, pump power, and coincidence time.<n>Shorter wavelengths increased nonlinearly with pump power, while longer wavelengths showed more linear behavior, indicating a wavelength dependent efficiency in the generation of the SPDC.<n>The measured statistics were found to be best described by a Negative Binomial Distribution, which is a characteristic of thermal light sources.
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• Abstract: The photon statistics of Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion (SPDC) exhibit dependencies on wavelength, pump power, and coincidence time. Notably, the average photon numbers were found to asymmetrically increase with increasing pump power around the degenerate wavelength of emission. By the coupling of the detection scheme to a spectrometer, studying different bandwidths within the emission revealed that shorter wavelengths increased nonlinearly with pump power, while longer wavelengths showed more linear behavior, indicating a wavelength dependent efficiency in the generation of the SPDC. We employ the use of a four detector Hanbury Brown and Twiss Interferometer to study the photon statistics of the signal beam, where the idler serves as the herald. The measured statistics were found to be best described by a Negative Binomial Distribution, which is a characteristic of thermal light sources. The detection and characterization of complex light sources has wide ranging applications in the fields of quantum metrology, quantum communications, and quantum computing, more specifically, a system that is sensitive to wavelength and photon number distribution.

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