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Using spontaneous parametric down conversion and a 50:50 beam splitter, we generate coaxial polarization-entangled photon pairs, of which the two photons are far separated from each other. The photons are then sent one by one through one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-06 Xian-Min Jin , Cheng-Zhi Peng , Tao Yang , Youjin Deng

We experimentally demonstrate a non-local generation of entanglement from two independent photonic sources in an ancilla-free process . Two bosons (photons) are entangled in polarization space by steering into a novel interferometer setup,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-11 Xian-Min Jin , Jügen Röch , Juan Yin , Tao Yang

On-chip bright quantum sources with multiplexing ability are extremely high in demand for the integrated quantum networks with unprecedented scalability and complexity. Here, we demonstrate an ultrabright and broadband biphoton quantum…

Tomographic analysis demonstrates that the polarization state of pairs of photons emitted from a biexciton decay cascade becomes entangled when spectral filtering is applied. The measured density matrix of the photon pair satisfies the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Akopian , N. H. Lindner , E. Poem , Y. Berlatzky , J. Avron , D. Gershoni , B. D. Gerardot , P. M. Petroff

We demonstrate an efficient experimental scheme for producing polarization-entangled photon pairs from spontaneous four-wave mixing (SFWM) in a laser-cooled $^{85}$Rb atomic ensemble, with a bandwidth (as low as 0.8 MHz) much narrower than…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Kaiyu Liao , Hui Yan , Junyu He , Shengwang Du , Zhi-Ming Zhang , Shi-Liang Zhu

We present an exact model of the detection statistics of a probabilistic source of photon pairs from which a fast, simple and precise method to measure the source's brightness and photon channel transmissions is demonstrated. We measure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 Felix Bussieres , Joshua A. Slater , Nicolas Godbout , Wolfgang Tittel

Integrated photonic circuits are one of the most promising platforms for large-scale photonic quantum information systems due to their small physical size and stable interferometers with near-perfect lateral-mode overlaps. Since many…

We produce polarization entangled states with variable degree of entanglement for twin photons. Entanglement in polarization is coupled to entanglement in position that produces transverse coincidence interference fringes. We show both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Franca Santos , P. Milman , A. Z. Khoury , P. H. Souto Ribeiro

Deterministic sources of high-fidelity entangled qubit pairs encoded in the dual-rail photonic basis, i.e., presence of a single photon in one of two orthogonal modes, are a key enabling technology of many applications of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-31 Prajit Dhara , Spencer J. Johnson , Christos N. Gagatsos , Paul G. Kwiat , Saikat Guha

We demonstrate pulsed polarization-entangled photons generated from a periodically poled $\mathrm{KTiOPO_4}$ (PPKTP) crystal in a Sagnac interferometer configuration at telecom wavelength. Since the group-velocity-matching (GVM) condition…

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…

Surface phonon polaritons are hybrid modes of photons and optical phonons that can propagate on the surface of a polar dielectric. In this work, we show that the precise combination of confinement and bandwidth offered by surface phonon…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-29 Nicholas Rivera , Ido Kaminer , Marin Soljacic

We experimentally demonstrate that paired photons generated in different sections of a down-conversion cone, when some of the interacting waves show Poynting vector walk-off, carry different spatial correlations, and therefore a different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Clara I. Osorio , Gabriel Molina-Terriza , Blanca G. Font , Juan P. Torres

We experimentally demonstrate polarization entanglement for squeezed vacuum pulses containing more than 10^5 photons. We also study photon-number entanglement by calculating the Schmidt number and measuring its operational counterpart.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 Timur Sh. Iskhakov , Ivan N. Agafonov , Maria V. Chekhova , Gerd Leuchs

We introduce a scalable photonic platform that enables efficient generation of entangled photon pairs from a semiconductor quantum dot. Our system, which is based on a self-aligned quantum dot-micro-cavity structure, erases the need for…

Optical quantum information processing needs ultra-bright sources of entangled photons, especially from synchronizable femtosecond lasers and low-cost cw-diode lasers. Decoherence due to timing information and spatial mode-dependent phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-26 Radhika Rangarajan , Michael Goggin , Paul Kwiat

Quantum entanglement among multiple spatially separated particles is of fundamental interest, and can serve as central resources for studies in quantum nonlocality, quantum-to-classical transition, quantum error correction, and quantum…

Entanglement of high dimensional states is becoming increasingly important for quantum communication and computing. The most common source of entangled photons is spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC), where the degree of frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 C. Okoth , E. Kovlakov , F. Boensel , A. Cavanna , S. Straupe , S. P. Kulik , M. V. Chekhova

Nanoscale quantum light sources are essential building blocks for integrated quantum photonic systems. Here, we report a wavelength-scale entangled-photon source based on van der Waals-engineered NbOBr$_2$, and benchmark its performance for…

We generate ultrabroadband photon pairs entangled in both polarization and frequency bins through an all-waveguided Sagnac source covering the entire optical C- and L-bands (1530--1625 nm). We perform comprehensive characterization of…