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Constructing large-scale quantum resources is an important foundation for further improving the efficiency and scalability of quantum communication. Here, we present an efficient extraction and stable control scheme of 40 pairs of entangled…

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Photonic entanglement is a crucial resource for quantum information technologies, including quantum information processing and long-distance communication. These applications call for narrow-band entanglement sources, being compatible with…

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 show that non-classical intensity correlations and quadrature entanglement can be generated by frequency doubling in a resonator with two output ports. We predict twin-beam intensity correlations 6 dB below the coherent state limit, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-01 Oo-Kaw Lim , Mark Saffman

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) entanglement is a criterion that is more demanding than just certifying entanglement. We theoretically and experimentally analyze the low resource generation of bi-partite continuous variable entanglement, as…

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Entangled photon-pair sources are foundational to advancing quantum technologies, including secure communication, quantum sensing, and imaging. For deployment in space-constrained environments such as satellite-based quantum networks or…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-07 Omar A. M. Abdelraouf

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

In this letter, we report a realization of synchronization-free quantum teleportation and narrowband three-photon entanglement through interfering narrowband photon sources. Since both the single-photon and the entangled photon pair…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-05 Jian Yang , Xiao-Hui Bao , Han Zhang , Shuai Chen , Cheng-Zhi Peng , Zeng-Bing Chen , Jian-Wei Pan

We demonstrate a wavelength-tunable, fiber-coupled source of polarization-entangled photons with extremely high spectral brightness and quality of entanglement. Using a 25 mm PPKTP crystal inside a polarization Sagnac interferometer we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alessandro Fedrizzi , Thomas Herbst , Andreas Poppe , Thomas Jennewein , Anton Zeilinger

Optical quantum networking protocols impose stringent requirements on the states produced by sources of entanglement. We demonstrate a free-space, compact, source of indistinguishable pairs of polarization entangled photons, with an…

In this work, we explore both the internal and external atomic degrees of freedom to observe quantum entanglement between the modes produced by a mirrorless optical parametric oscillator operating below the oscillation threshold in a sample…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 G. C. Borba , R. S. N. Moreira , L. S. Cruz , M. Martinelli , D. Felinto , J. W. R. Tabosa

We use polarization-entangled photon pairs to demonstrate quantum nonlocality in an experiment suitable for advanced undergraduates. The photons are produced by spontaneous parametric downconversion using a violet diode laser and two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dietrich Dehlinger , M. W. Mitchell

A pulsed source of entangled photons is desirable for some applications. Yet, such a source has intrinsic problems arising from the simultaneous arrival of the signal and noise photons to the detectors. These problems are analyzed and…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Mónica B. Agüero , Alejandro A. Hnilo , Marcelo G. Kovalsky

Nonclassical photon sources of high brightness are key components of quantum communication technologies. We here demonstrate the generation of narrowband, nonclassical photon pairs by employing spontaneous four-wave mixing in an…

I consider several interesting aspects of a new light source, a two-level atom, or N two-level atoms inside an Optical Parametric Oscillator. We find that in the weak driving limit, detection of a transmitted or fluorescent photon generates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Perry R. Rice

We observe narrowband pairs of time-correlated photons of wavelengths 776\,nm and 795\,nm from non-degenerate four-wave mixing in a laser-cooled atomic ensemble of $^{87}${Rb} using a cascade decay scheme. Coupling the photon pairs into…

Entanglement is the essential quantum resource for a potential speed-up of information processing, as well as for sophisticated quantum communication. Quantum information networks will be required to convey information from one place to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 A. S. Coelho , F. A. S. Barbosa , K. N. Cassemiro , A. S. Villar , M. Martinelli , P. Nussenzveig

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

Quantum networks consisting of quantum memories and photonic interconnects can be used for entanglement distribution (L.-M.Duan and H. J. Kimble, PRL 90, 253601 (2003), H. J. Kimble, Nat. 453, 1023 EP (2008)), quantum teleportation…

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