Atom-mediated Spontaneous Parametric Down-conversion Using Evanescent Modes in Nonlinear Periodic Waveguides

Saravi, Sina
Poddubny, Alexander
Pertsch, Thomas
Setzpfandt, Frank
Sukhorukov, Andrey

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Publication date

November 2019

DOI

10.1364/CLEO_QELS.2018.FM2H.1

Publisher

The Optical Society

Abstract

Relying on the bandgap modes of a nonlinear periodic waveguide, we propose the concept of atom-mediated spontaneous parametric down-conversion, where photon-pairs are only generated with a single 2-level emitter present, creating a heralded excitation mechanism