The purpose of this tutorial paper is to present a broad overview of photon-pair generation
through the spontaneous four wave mixing (SFWM) process in optical fibers. Progress in …

We propose the use of nonlinear periodic waveguides for direct and fully integrated
generation of counterpropagating photon pairs by spontaneous parametric down …

Traditional quantum ghost imaging technique uses three-photon spontaneous parametric
down-conversion for producing beams of entangled photons. Two main factors limiting the …

We experimentally study the generation of photon pairs via spontaneous four-wave mixing
with two distinct laser pulses. We find that the dual-pump technique enables new …

We investigate two-phonon parametric opto-mechanical generation in a solid state optical
cavity pumped with two resonant counter-propagating coherent optical fields. We show that …

We investigate different strategies suitable to generate pure heralded single photons
through spontaneous parametric down-conversion, comparing the counterpropagating …

We report the design of an innovative visible-telecom photon pair source based on counter-
propagating spontaneous four wave mixing (CP-SFWM) in a silicon nitride microring …

In this work, we experimentally demonstrate a photon-pair source with correlations in the
frequency and polarization degrees of freedom. We base our source on the spontaneous …

In this work, we propose and theoretically analyze a new scheme for generation of
counterpropagating photon pairs in photonic crystal waveguides through the process of …

In this thesis, I overcome the challenges and fill the gaps in knowledge for the design and
analysis of photonic crystal slab waveguides (PCSWs) as spontaneous parametric down …