Abstract
The generation of multi-photon quantum states in integrated waveguiding structures provides a route to the creation of quantum optical chips. In particular, the simultaneous generation of photons through spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) and their quantum walks in nonlinear waveguide arrays (WGAs) can be used to produce strongly spatially entangled biphoton states [1] with applications for quantum search algorithms [2]. Whereas up to now only arrays of single-mode nonlinear waveguides have been considered for SPDC, in general the waveguides may support several guided modes, which were demonstrated to strongly affect nonlinear wave mixing in the classical regime [3]. Here we show that using higher order modes for SPDC has a significant influence on the generated two-photon states and gives additional means to control them. In particular, we employ the symmetry of the modes to engineer effectively nonlocal photon pair generation by SPDC.
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