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We present recent findings towards developing brighter entangled photon sources in critically phase matched (CPM) nonlinear crystals. Specifically, we use type-I collinear phase matching at non-degenerate wavelengths in parallel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-31 Alexander Lohrmann , Aitor Villar , Alexander Ling

Entanglement is one of the most fascinating properties of quantum mechanical systems; when two particles are entangled the measurement of the properties of one of the two allows to instantaneously know the properties of the other, whatever…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 Adeline Orieux , Marijn A. M. Versteegh , Klaus D. Jöns , Sara Ducci

Entangled photon pair sources are a key enabling technology for quantum communication and networking, yet their deployment beyond laboratory environments is hindered by system-level complexity, limited operational stability, and…

The generation of entangled photon pairs which are compatible with quantum devices and standard telecommunication channels are critical for the development of long range fiber quantum networks. Aside from wavelength, bandwidth matching and…

We describe and experimentally demonstrate a three-party quantum secret sharing protocol using polarization-entangled photon pairs. The source itself serves as an active participant and can switch between the required photon states by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-19 Brian P. Williams , Joseph M. Lukens , Nicholas A. Peters , Bing Qi , Warren P. Grice

The next generation of technology is rooted in quantum-based advancements. The entangled photon pair sources play a pivotal role in such wide range of advancement in quantum-based applications, including quantum high precision sensors,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Abdus Salam Sarkar

Sources of entangled photon pairs are a key component in both fundamental tests of quantum theory and practical applications such as quantum key distribution and quantum computing. In this work, we describe and characterize a source of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-03 Terence E. Stuart , Joshua A. Slater , Felix Bussieres , Wolfgang Tittel

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

A new method for generating entangled photons with controllable frequency correlation via spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is presented. The method entails initiating counter-propagating SPDC in a single-mode nonlinear…

Generating nonclassical states of photons such as polarization entangled states on a monolithic chip is a crucial step towards practical applications of optical quantum information processing such as quantum computing and quantum key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Dongpeng Kang , Minseok Kim , Haoyu He , Amr S. Helmy

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

Entangled photons are fundamental resources for quantum communication, computing, and networking. Among them, polarization-entangled photon pairs play an important role due to their straightforward state manipulation and direct use in…

A photon source based on postselection from entangled photon pairs produced by parametric frequency down-conversion is suggested. Its ability to provide good approximations of single-photon states is examined. Application of this source in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jan Perina , Ondrej Haderka , Jan Soubusta

We present a scheme for generating polarization-entangled photons pairs with arbitrary joint spectrum. Specifically, we describe a technique for spontaneous parametric down-conversion in which both the center frequencies and the bandwidths…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Zachary D. Walton , Alexander V. Sergienko , Bahaa E. A. Saleh , Malvin C. Teich

Polarization-entangled photon pairs can be efficiently prepared into pure Bell states with a high fidelity via type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) of narrow-band pump light. However, the use of femtosecond pump pulses to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hou Shun Poh , Chune Yang Lum , Ivan Marcikic , Antia Lamas-Linares , Christian Kurtsiefer

Scalable quantum systems require deterministic entangled photon pair sources. Here, we demonstrate a scheme that uses a dipole-coupled defect pair to deterministically emit polarization-entangled photon pairs. Based on this scheme, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Derek S. Wang , Tomáš Neuman , Prineha Narang

We show theoretically that entangled photon pairs can be produced on demand through the biexciton decay of a quantum dot strongly coupled to the modes of a photonic crystal. The strong coupling allows to tune the energy of the mixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Johne , N. A. Gippius , G. Pavlovic , D. D. Solnyshkov , I. A. Shelykh , G. Malpuech

The ability to engineer pairs of entangled photons is essential to quantum information science, and generating these states using spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in nano- and micrometer-scale materials offers numerous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Nicholas J. Sorensen , Vitaliy Sultanov , Maria V. Chekhova

Stable sources of entangled photons are important requirements for quantum communications. In recent years, cascaded downconversion has been demonstrated as an effective method of directly producing three-photon entanglement. However, to…

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is the most widely used process for generating entangled photon pairs. In SPDC, a pump photon interacts with a nonlinear optical crystal and splits into two entangled photons called the signal…