Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference with a Diode-pumped 1-GHz Ti:sapphire Laser

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Imogen Morland, Hanna Ostapenko, Feng Zhu, Derryck T. Reid, Jonathan Leach

Published: 01 Jan 2024, Last Modified: 06 Nov 2025CLEO: Applications and Technology 2024EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: We demonstrate correlated photon pair generation at 790 nm using a diode-pumped Kerr-lens-modelocked 1-GHz Ti:sapphire laser and verify the presence of indistinguishable photons using Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry, showing a dip in coincidence counts with 81.8% visibility.