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Entangled photons are a crucial resource for quantum communication and linear optical quantum computation. Unfortunately, the applicability of many photon-based schemes is limited due to the stochastic character of the photon sources.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-07 Stefanie Barz , Gunther Cronenberg , Anton Zeilinger , Philip Walther

Entangled photon sources (EPSs) are pivotal in advancing quantum communication, computing and sensing. The demand for deploying efficient, robust EPSs in the field, characterized by exceptional (phase) stability, has become increasingly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Giacomo Paganini , Alvaro Cuevas , Robin Camphausen , Alexander Demuth , Valerio Pruneri

We report on our progress developing highly-miniaturised, polarisation-entangled, photon pair sources for CubeSats. We have a correlated photon-pair source in orbit in the NUS Galassia 2U CubeSat. We also have an entangled photon pair…

We experimentally investigate a double-pass parametric down-conversion scheme for producing pulsed, polarization-entangled photon pairs with high visibility. The amplitudes for creating photon pairs on each pass interfere to compensate for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Juan F. Hodelin , George Khoury , Dirk Bouwmeester

The distribution of entanglement via satellite links will drastically extend the reach of quantum networks. Highly efficient entangled photon sources are an essential requirement towards overcoming high channel loss and achieving practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Emma Brambila , Rodrigo Gómez , Riza Fazili , Markus Gräfe , Fabian Steinlechner

Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have emerged as a premier solid-state platform for the deterministic generation of nonclassical light, offering a compelling pathway toward scalable quantum photonic systems. While single-photon emission…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-06 Xingling Pan , Zhiming Chen , Yingtao Ding , Weibo Gao , Fei Ding , Zhaogang Dong

We report a versatile and practical approach for generating high-quality polarization entanglement in a fully guided-wave fashion. Our setup relies on a high-brilliance type-0 waveguide generator producing paired photon at a telecom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 F. Kaiser , A. Issautier , L. A. Ngah , O. Alibart , A. Martin , S. Tanzilli

A new device to generate polarization-entangled light in the continuous variable regime is introduced. It consists of an Optical Parametric Oscillator with two type-II phase-matched non-linear crystals orthogonally oriented, associated with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Julien Laurat , Gaëlle Keller , Claude Fabre , Thomas Coudreau

We have realized experimentally a non-degenerate polarization-entangled photon pair distribution in a commercial telecom dense wave-division multiplexing device (DWDM) with 8 channels. A promising point of this work is that the entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Yun-Kun Jiang , Dong-Sheng Ding , Bao-Sen Shi , Guang-Can Guo

The ability to generate complex optical photon states involving entanglement between multiple optical modes is not only critical to advancing our understanding of quantum mechanics but will play a key role in generating many applications in…

Parametric nonlinear optical processes are instrumental in optical quantum technology for generating entangled light. However, the range of materials conventionally used for producing entangled photons is limited. Metal-organic frameworks…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-30 Simón Paiva , Ruben A. Fritz , Sanoj Raj , Yamil J. Colón , Felipe Herrera

Entanglement is a valuable resource in quantum information technologies. The practical implementation of entangled photon sources faces obstacles from imperfections and defects inherent in physical systems, resulting in a loss or…

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

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

Light states composed of multiple entangled photons - such as cluster states - are essential for developing and scaling-up quantum computing networks. Photonic cluster states with discrete variables can be obtained from single-photon…

Continuous variables multipartite entanglement is a key resource for quantum technologies. This works considers the multipartite entanglement generated in separated spatial modes of the same light beam by three different parametric sources:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Alessandra Gatti

Multiphoton entanglement plays a critical role in quantum information processing, and greatly improves our fundamental understanding of the quantum world. Despite tremendous efforts in either bulk media or fiber-based devices, nonlinear…

Pairs of entangled vortex photons can promise new prospects of application in quantum computing and cryptography. We investigate the possibility of generating such states via two-level atom emission induced by a single photon wave packet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 D. V. Grosman , G. K. Sizykh , E. O. Lazarev , G. V. Voloshin , D. V. Karlovets

We demonstrate an optical-fiber based source of polarization entangled photon-pairs with improved quality and efficiency, which has been integrated with off-the-shelf telecom components and is, therefore, well suited for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaoying Li , Chuang Liang , Kim Fook Lee , Jun Chen , Paul L. Voss , Prem Kumar

By realizing a quantum cryptography system based on polarization entangled photon pairs we establish highly secure keys, because a single photon source is approximated and the inherent randomness of quantum measurements is exploited. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Thomas Jennewein , Christoph Simon , Gregor Weihs , Harald WeinfurterD , Anton Zeilinger