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We have demonstrated a high-flux source of polarization-entangled photons using a type-II phase-matched periodically-poled KTP parametric downconverter in a collinearly propagating configuration. We have observed quantum interference…

Entangled photon pairs are essential for many applications in quantum technologies. Recent theoretical studies demonstrated that different types of entangled Bell states can be created in a constantly driven four-level quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Tim Seidelmann , Michael Cosacchi , Moritz Cygorek , Doris E. Reiter , Alexei Vagov , Vollrath Martin Axt

Phonons, and in particular surface acoustic wave phonons, have been proposed as a means to coherently couple distant solid-state quantum systems. Recent experiments have shown that superconducting qubits can control and detect individual…

We report on a simple but highly efficient source of polarization-entangled photon pairs at non-degenerate wavelengths. The fully collinear configuration of the source enables very high coupling efficiency into a single optical mode and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pavel Trojek , Harald Weinfurter

Surface plasmon polaritons and phonon polaritons offer a means of surpassing the diffraction limit of conventional optics and facilitate efficient energy storage, local field enhancement, high sensitivities, benefitting from their…

We report on a compact, simple and robust high brightness entangled photon source at room temperature. Based on a 30 mm long periodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate (PPKTP), the source produces non-collinear, type0 phase matched,…

Optics · Physics 2017-02-14 M. V. Jabir , G. K. Samanta

Entangled photon spectroscopy is a nascent field that has important implications for measurement and imaging across chemical, biology, and materials fields. Entangled photon spectroscopy potentially offers improved spatial and…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-07 Szilard Szoke , Manni He , Bryce P. Hickam , Scott K. Cushing

A pulsed source of energy-time entangled photon pairs pumped by a standard laser diode is proposed and demonstrated. The basic states can be distinguished by their time of arrival. This greatly simplifies the realization of 2-photon quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 J. Brendel , N. Gisin , W. Tittel , H. Zbinden

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…

Phonon-polaritons propagating in crystal volume offer the possibility of transferring information throughout matter (via phonons) at high (photon-like) velocity and tunable frequency/wavelength in the far-infrared. However, from the…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-03 Mayssoune Mina , Toni Alhaddad , Olivier Pagès

Integrated optics provides the platform for the experimental implementation of highly complex and compact circuits for quantum information applications. In this context integrated waveguide sources represent a powerful resource for the…

Many of the envisioned quantum photonic technologies, e.g. a quantum repeater, rely on an energy- (wavelength-) tunable source of polarization entangled photon pairs. The energy tunability is a fundamental requirement to perform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 Yan Chen , Jiaxiang Zhang , Michael Zopf , Kyubong Jung , Yang Zhang , Fei Ding , Oliver G. Schmidt

Surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs) are promising candidates for enhanced light--matter interactions due to their efficient and low-loss light confinement features. In this work, we present unique light-matter interactions in saphhire within…

We report on simulations of the degree of polarization entanglement of photon pairs simultaneously emitted from a quantum dot-cavity system that demand revisiting the role of phonons. Since coherence is a fundamental precondition for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Tim Seidelmann , Florian Ungar , Andreas M. Barth , Alexei Vagov , Vollrath Martin Axt , Moritz Cygorek , Tilmann Kuhn

Nanophotonic entangled-photon sources are a critical building block of chip-scale quantum photonic architecture and have seen significant development over the past two decades. These sources generate photon pairs that typically span over a…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-10 Usman A. Javid , Jingwei Ling , Jeremy Staffa , Mingxiao Li , Yang He , Qiang Lin

Current photon entangling schemes require resources that grow with the photon number. We present a new approach that generates quantum entanglement between many photons, using only a single source of entangled photon pairs. The different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 E. Megidish , T. Shacham , A. Halevy , L. Dovrat , H. S. Eisenberg

We present a versatile, high-brightness, guided-wave source of polarization entangled photons, emitted at a telecom wavelength. Photon-pairs are generated using an integrated type-0 nonlinear waveguide, and subsequently prepared in a…

Using the process of spontaneous parametric down conversion in a novel two-crystal geometry, one can generate a source of polarization-entangled photon pairs which is orders of magnitude brighter than previous sources. We have measured a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paul G. Kwiat , Edo Waks , Andrew G. White , Ian Appelbaum , Philippe H. Eberhard

We investigate light-matter coupling in metallic crystals where plasmons coexist with phonons exhibiting large oscillator strength. We demonstrate theoretically that this coexistence can lead to strong light-matter interactions without…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-25 David Hagenmüller , Johannes Schachenmayer , Cyriaque Genet , Thomas W. Ebbesen , Guido Pupillo

We demonstrate an efficient fiber-coupled source of nondegenerate polarization entangled photons at 795 and 1609 nm using bidirectionally pumped parametric down-conversion in bulk periodically poled lithium niobate. The single-mode source…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Friedrich König , Elliott J. Mason , Franco N. C. Wong , Marius A. Albota