Abstract
We study the process of spontaneous parametric downconversion in a one-dimensional defective quadratic nonlinear photonic crystal. It is shown that the strong confinements of both the pump and signal waves around the defective layer result in a giant enhancement of the entangled photon-pair generation. An enhancement factor as high as is obtained in our defective structure based on the dual-localized modes. Furthermore, the linewidth of the downconverted fields is only . Such a photonic crystal structure can be applied as a highly efficient source of entangled photon pairs for highly integrated all-optical circuits.
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