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Entangled photon pairs play a major role in various modern technologies such as quantum imaging, communication, and computing. Conventional photon-pair sources are often based on spontaneous parametric down-conversion in bulk nonlinear…

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

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

We report on the experimental generation of an entangled state with a spectrally pure heralded single-photon state and a weak coherent state. By choosing group-velocity matching in the nonlinear crystal, our system for producing entangled…

Liquid crystals, with their ability of self-assembly, strong response to the electric field, and integrability into complex systems, are key materials in light beam manipulation. Recently discovered ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals…

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…

Entangled photon states attract tremendous interest as the most vivid manifestation of nonlocality of quantum mechanics and also for emerging applications in quantum information. Here we propose a mechanism of generation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-22 Mikhail Tokman , Xianghan Yao , Alexey Belyanin

We demonstrate a fiber-based source of polarization-entangled photon pairs at visible wavelengths suitable for integration with local quantum processing schemes. The photons are created through birefringent phase-matching in spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 Bin Fang , Offir Cohen , Virginia Lorenz

We investigate entangled photon pair generation in a lossy microring resonator using an input-output formalism based on the work of Raymer and McKinstrie (Phys. Rev. A 88, 043819 (2013)) and Alsing, et al. (Phys. Rev. A 95, 053828 (2017))…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Paul M. Alsing , Edwin E. Hach

We experimentally demonstrate sum-frequency generation (SFG) with entangled photon-pairs, generating as many as 40,000 SFG photons per second, visible even to the naked eye. The nonclassical nature of the interaction is exhibited by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Barak Dayan , Avi pe'er , Asher A. Friesem , Yaron Silberberg

Without developing a correct theory, the rate of the production of entangled photon pairs in the X-ray region by high energy electrons is estimated for experimental parameters used in a few experiments on X-ray parametric down conversion.…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 K. A. Ispirian , M. K. Ispiryan

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

In this paper, we address the issue of the generation of non-degenerate cross-polarization-entangled photon pairs using type-II periodically poled lithium niobate. We show that, by an appropriate engineering of the quasi-phase-matching…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-10 K. Thyagarajan , K. Sinha , J. Lugani , S. Ghosh , A. Martin , D. B. Ostrowsky , O. Alibart , S. Tanzilli

We present an experimental scheme based on spontaneous parametric down-conversion to produce multiple photon pairs in maximally entangled polarization states using an arrangement of two type-I nonlinear crystals. By introducing correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 K. Dobek , M. Karpinski , R. Demkowicz-Dobrzanski , K. Banaszek , P. Horodecki

We demonstrate frequency-bin entanglement between ultra-narrowband photons generated by cavity enhanced spontaneous parametric down conversion. Our source generates photon pairs in widely non-degenerate discrete frequency modes, with one…

We address the process of generation of the photon-number entangled states of light in the stimulated nonlinear parametric down conversion process and build the simple model describing the generation, not involving the traditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-02 Oleksandr O. Gurin , Vladyslav C. Usenko , Constantin V. Usenko

Metasurfaces consisting of nano-scale structures are underpinning new physical principles for the creation and shaping of quantum states of light. Multi-photon states that are entangled in spatial or angular domains are an essential…

Nonlinearity and sharp transmission spectra of random 1D nonlinear layered structures are combined together to produce photon pairs with extremely narrow spectral bandwidths. Indistinguishable photons in a pair are nearly unentangled. Also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jan Perina , Marco Centini , Concita Sibilia , Mario Bertolotti

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

The transmission of strong laser light in nonlinear optical materials can generate output photons sources that carry quantum entanglement in multiple degrees of freedom, making this process a fundamentally important tool in optical quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Sanoj Raj , Simón Paiva , Rubén Fritz , Felipe Herrera , Yamil J. Colón