Microscale generation of entangled photons without momentum conservation

Abstract

We report, for the first time, the generation of entangled photon pairs via type-0 spontaneous parametric down conversion in an ultra-thin wafer of lithium niobate in which momentum between the pump photon and daughter photons is not conserved. The characteristics of the emission are investigated using several techniques. We find that non-phase matched SPDC is a promising source of ultra-broadband two photon radiation that exhibits remarkably tight correlation widths in both the spatial and temporal domains.

9 pages, 8 figures

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