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Two-photon state with spatial entanglement is an essential resource for testing fundamental laws of quantum mechanics and various quantum applications. Its creation typically relies on spontaneous parametric down-conversion in bulky…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-28 Jihua Zhang , Jinyong Ma , Dragomir N. Neshev , Andrey A. Sukhorukov

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 photon-pairs are a critical resource in quantum communication protocols ranging from quantum key distribution to teleportation. The current workhorse technique for producing photon-pairs is via spontaneous parametric down…

With the advancement of non-classical light sources such as single-photon and entangled-photon sources, innovative microscopy based on the quantum principles has been proposed over traditional microscopy. This paper introduces the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Mousume Samad , Maki Shimizu , Yasuto Hijikata

Generating entangled photons from a monolithic chip is a major milestone towards real-life applications of optical quantum information processing including quantum key distribution and quantum computing. Ultrabroadband entangled photons are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-30 Dongpeng Kang , Ankita Anirban , Amr S. Helmy

Photon pairs, highly entangled in polarization have been generated under femtosecond laser pulse excitation by a type I crystal source, operating in a single arm interferometric scheme. The relevant effects of temporal walk-off existing in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Barbieri , C. Cinelli , F. De Martini , P. Mataloni

We propose a new method of generating triggered entangled photon pairs with wavelength on demand. The method uses a micro-structured semiconductor-piezoelectric device capable of dynamically reshaping the electronic properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-23 Rinaldo Trotta , Javier Martín-Sánchez , Istvan Daruka , Carmine Ortix , Armando Rastelli

We demonstrate a bright, narrowband, compact, quasi-phase-matched single-crystal source generating path-polarization-entangled photon pairs at 810 nm and 1550 nm at a maximum rate of 3 Mcounts/(s THz mW) after coupling to single-mode fiber,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Sauge , M. Swillo , M. Tengner , A. Karlsson

Entanglement witnessing is essential for quantum technologies such as computing, key distribution, and networking. Conventional bulk-optics methods require sequential reconfiguration across multiple polarization bases, limiting efficiency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Mohamed ElKabbash

We demonstrate polarization entanglement in highly non-degenerate photon pairs, generated through Type-0 spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) using bulk periodically poled Lithium Niobate (PPLN) crystals. Through the utilization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Sungeun Oh , Thomas Jennewein

We propose a method for the generation of a large variety of entangled states, encoded in the polarization degrees of freedom of N photons, within the same experimental setup. Starting with uncorrelated photons, emitted from N arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-15 A. Maser , R. Wiegner , U. Schilling , C. Thiel , J. von Zanthier

The prospect of using the quantum nature of light for secure communication keeps spurring the search and investigation of suitable sources of entangled-photons. Semiconductor quantum dots are arguably the most attractive. They can generate…

We demonstrate a novel polarization-entangled photon-pair source based on standard birefringent polarization-maintaining optical fiber. The source consists of two stretches of fiber spliced together with perpendicular polarization axes, and…

Nonlinear metasurfaces have recently been established as a new platform for generating photon pairs via spontaneous parametric down-conversion. While for classical harmonic generation in metasurfaces a high level of control over all degrees…

The quantum Zeno effect reveals that the continuous observation of a quantum system can result in significant alterations to its evolution. Here, we present a method for establishing polarization entanglement between two initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Ian C. Nodurft , Harry C. Shaw , Ryan T. Glasser , Brian T. Kirby , Thomas A. Searles

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

A novel ultrabright parametric source of polarization entangled photon pairs with striking spatial characteristics is reported. The distribution of the output electromagnetic k-modes excited by Spontaneous Parametris Down Conversion and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Di Nepi , F. De Martini , M. Barbieri , P. Mataloni

We report the generation of polarization-entangled photons by femtosecond-pulse-pumped spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a cascade of two type-I crystals. Highly entangled pulsed states were obtained by introducing a temporal delay…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Nambu , K. Usami , Y. Tsuda , K. Matsumoto , K. Nakamura

A silicon quantum photonic circuit was proposed and demonstrated as an integrated quantum light source for telecom band polarization entangled Bell state generation and dynamical manipulation. Biphoton states were firstly generated in four…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Dongning Liu , Jingyuan Zheng , Lingjie Yu , Xue Feng , Fang Liu , Kaiyu Cui , Yidong Huang , Wei Zhang

Plasmonics is a rapidly emerging platform for quantum state engineering with the potential for building ultra-compact and hybrid optoelectronic devices. Recent experiments have shown that despite the presence of decoherence and loss, photon…