Temperature insensitive type II quasi-phasematched spontaneous parametric downconversion
arXiv:2012.05134 · doi:10.1063/5.0052239
Abstract
The temperature dependence of the refractive indices of potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP) are shown to enable quasi-phasematched type II spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) with low temperature sensitivity. Calculations show the effect to be maximised for emission of photons at around 1165nm, as well as producing potentially useful regions for wavelengths throughout the telecommunications bands. We demonstrate the effect experimentally, observing temperature-insensitive degenerate emission at 1326nm, within the telecommunications O band. This result has practical applications in the development of entangled photon sources for resource-constrained environments, and we demonstrate a simple polarization entangled source as a proof of concept.
arXiv comment5 pages, 7 figures
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