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US09268195B1 Methods and apparatus of entangled photon generation using four-wave mixing
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使用四波混频的纠缠光子产生的方法和装置
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus of entangled photon generation using four-wave mixing
- Patent Title (中): 使用四波混频的纠缠光子产生的方法和装置
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Application No.: US14102311Application Date: 2013-12-10
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Publication No.: US09268195B1Publication Date: 2016-02-23
- Inventor: Ryan Camacho
- Applicant: Sandia Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NM Albuquerque
- Assignee: Sandia Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sandia Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NM Albuquerque
- Agent Martin I. Finston
- Main IPC: G02F1/35
- IPC: G02F1/35 ; G02B27/00

Abstract:
A non-linear optical device is provided. The device comprises an optical disk or ring microresonator fabricated from a material that exhibits an optical nonlinearity able to produce degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) in response to a pump beam having a pump frequency in a specified effective range. The microresonator is conformed to exhibit an angular group velocity minimum at a pump frequency within the specified effective range such that there is zero angular group velocity dispersion at the pump frequency. We refer to such a pump frequency as the “zero dispersion frequency”. In embodiments, excitation of the resonator by a pump beam of sufficient intensity at the zero-dispersion frequency causes the resonator to emit a frequency comb of entangled photon pairs wherein the respective frequencies in each pair are symmetrically placed about the zero-dispersion frequency.
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