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Invariant entangled states remain unchanged under simultaneous identical unitary transformations of all their subsystems. We experimentally generate and characterize such invariant two-, four-, and six-photon polarization entangled states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Magnus Radmark , Marcin Wiesniak , Marek Zukowski , Mohamed Bourennane

Entangled photons are pivotal elements in emerging quantum information technologies. While several schemes are available for the production of entangled photons, they typically require the assistance of cumbersome optical elements to couple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Álvaro Rodríguez Echarri , Joel D. Cox , F. Javier García de Abajo

Polarization-entangled photons are indispensable to numerous quantum technologies and fundamental studies. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a novel source that generates collinear polarization-entangled photons by simultaneously…

Single-photon sources play a key role in photonic quantum technologies. Semiconductor quantum dots can emit indistinguishable single photons under resonant excitation. However, the resonance fluorescence technique typically requires…

Chip-integrated photon-pair sources based on spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) have emerged as a promising solution for scalable quantum light generation. Thin-film lithium tantalate (TFLT) is a compelling $\chi^{(2)}$ platform,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-26 Sakthi Sanjeev Mohanraj , Xiaodong Shi , Ran Yang , Lin Zhou , Di Zhu

The need for spatial and spectral filtering in the generation of polarization entanglement is eliminated by combining two coherently-driven type-II spontaneous parametric downconverters. The resulting ultrabright source emits photon pairs…

Entanglement--one of the most delicate phenomena in nature--is an essential resource for quantum information applications. Large entangled cluster states have been predicted to enable universal quantum computation, with the required single-…

Entangled photons are crucial for the development of quantum technologies and especially important in quantum communications. Hence it is paramount to have a reliable, high-fidelity source of entangled photons. Here we describe the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 Vasile-Laurenţiu Dosan , Andrei Nazîru , Mona Mihăilescu , Radu Ionicioiu

Entangled photon sources (EPS) are essential for quantum science and technology. Despite advancements in integrated optical platforms like thin-film lithium niobate, a scalable, high-performance, chip-scale EPS has remained elusive. We…

Single-photon entanglement is a peculiar type of entanglement in which two or more degrees of freedom of a single photon are correlated quantum-mechanically. Here, we demonstrate a photonic integrated chip (PIC) able to generate and…

A bi-photon polarization-frequency entanglement source was realized by shaping the phase-matching function of a poled KTP crystal. It provides a simple method to achieve either polarization or spectral entanglement in a simple collinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-10 Anatoly Shukhin , Inbar Hurvitz , Leonid Vidro , Ady Arie , Hagai S. Eisenberg

We predict that all-optically reconfigurable generation of photon pairs with tailored spatial entanglement can be realized via spontaneous parametric down-conversion in integrated nonlinear coupled waveguides. The required elements of the…

Generation of entangled photons through spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) from ultrasmall sources like thin films, metasurfaces, or nanoantennas, offers unprecedented freedom in quantum state engineering. However, as the source…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Vitaliy Sultanov , Maria Chekhova

We present a fiber based source of polarization-entangled photon pairs that is well suited for quantum communication applications in the 1550nm band of standard fiber-optic telecommunications. Polarization entanglement is created by pumping…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiaoying Li , Paul L. Voss , Jay E. Sharping , Prem Kumar

We present an integrated source of polarization entangled photon pairs in the telecom regime, which is based on type II-phasematched parametric down-conversion (PDC) in a Ti-indiffused waveguide in periodically poled lithium niobate. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Harald Herrmann , Xu Yang , Abu Thomas , Andreas Poppe , Wolfgang Sohler , Christine Silberhorn

Integrated quantum optics becomes a consequent tendency towards practical quantum information processing. Here, we report the on-chip generation and manipulation of photonic entanglement based on reconfigurable lithium niobate waveguide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 H. Jin , F. M. Liu , P. Xu , J. L. Xia , M. L. Zhong , Y. Yuan , Y. X. Gong , W. Wang , S. N. Zhu

An ideal controlled-NOT gate followed by projective measurements can be used to identify specific Bell states of its two input qubits. When the input qubits are each members of independent Bell states, these projective measurements can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 T. B. Pittman , M. M. Donegan , M. J. Fitch , B. C. Jacobs , J. D. Franson , P. Kok , H. Lee , J. P. Dowling

We examine the modal, spectral, and polarization entanglement properties of photon pairs generated in a nonlinear, periodically poled, two-mode waveguide (1-D planar or 2-D circular) via nondegenerate spontaneous parametric down-conversion.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Mohammed F. Saleh , Bahaa E. A. Saleh , Malvin Carl Teich

Spectrally correlated photon pairs can be used to improve performance of long range fiber based quantum communication protocols. We present a source based on spontaneous parametric down-conversion producing polarization entangled photons…

Optics · Physics 2014-03-28 Thomas Lutz , Piotr Kolenderski , Thomas Jennewein

Integrated entangled photon-pair sources are key elements for enabling large-scale quantum photonic solutions, and addresses the challenges of both scaling-up and stability. Here we report the first demonstration of an energy-time entangled…