Compact sources of polarization-entangled photons

doi:10.1364/OE.16.020149

Compact sources of polarization-entangled photons

Marco Fiorentino and Raymond G. Beausoleil »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 24, pp. 20149-20156 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.16.020149

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Abstract

We present several novel sources of polarization-entangled states based on beam displacer interferometers. These sources generate a large number of high-quality entangled photon pairs in a compact alignment-free layout and can work with both cw and pulsed pumps.

OCIS Codes
(190.4410) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, parametric processes
(270.0270) Quantum optics : Quantum optics

ToC Category:
Quantum Optics

History
Original Manuscript: October 15, 2008
Revised Manuscript: November 13, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: November 18, 2008
Published: November 21, 2008

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Marco Fiorentino and Raymond G. Beausoleil, "Compact sources of polarization-entangled photons," Opt. Express 16, 20149-20156 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-24-20149

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P. G. Kwiat, K. Mattle, H. Weinfurter, A. Zeilinger, A. V. Sergienko, and Y. Shih, "New High-Intensity Source of Polarization-Entangled Photon Pairs," Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4337-4341 (1995). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
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T. Kim, M. Fiorentino, and F. N. C. Wong, "Phase-stable source of polarization-entangled photons using a polarization Sagnac interferometer," Phys. Rev. A 73, 012316 (2006). [CrossRef]
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Appel, R.
Appelbaum, I.
Aspect, A.
Branning, D.
Chiao, R. Y.
Clauser, J. F.
Davis, L.
Dyer, C. D.
Eberhard, P. H.
Eimerl, D.
Fedrizzi, A.
Fiorentino, M.
Graham, E. K.
Grangier, P.
Herbst, T.
Holt, R. A.
Horne, M. A.
Jennewein, T.
Kim, T.
Kuklewicz, C. E.
Kwiat, P. G.
Lockwood, J. N.
Lundeen, J. S.
Mattle, K.
Messin, G.
Mosley, P. J.
O’Brien, J. L.
Poppe, A.
Pryde, G. J.
Ralph, T. C.
Roger, G.
Sergienko, A. V.
Shapiro, J. H.
Shih, Y.
Shimony, A.
Smith, B. J.
Steinberg, A. M.
Velsko, S.
Waks, E.
Wasylczyk, P.
Weinfurter, H.
White, A. G.
Wong, F. N. C.
Zalkin, A.
Zeilinger, A.

Applied Optics

R. Appel, C. D. Dyer, and J. N. Lockwood, "Design of a broadband UV-visible alpha-barium borate polarizer," Applied Optics 41, 2470-2480 (2002). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

J. of App. Phys.

D. Eimerl, L. Davis, S. Velsko, E. K. Graham, and A. Zalkin, "Optical, mechanical, and thermal properties of barium borate," J. of App. Phys. 62, 1968-1983 (1987). [CrossRef]

Nature

J. L. O’Brien, G. J. Pryde, A. G. White, T. C. Ralph, and D. Branning, "Demonstration of an all-optical quantum controlled-NOT gate," Nature 426, 264 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Opt. Express

A. Fedrizzi, T. Herbst, A. Poppe, T. Jennewein, and A. Zeilinger, "A wavelength-tunable fiber-coupled source of narrowband entangled photons," Opt. Express 15, 15377-15386 (2007). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Phys. Rev. A

P. G. Kwiat, E. Waks, A. G. White, I. Appelbaum, and P. H. Eberhard, "Ultra-bright source of polarizationentangled photons," Phys. Rev. A 60, 773 (1999). [CrossRef]
P. G. Kwiat, P. H. Eberhard, A. M. Steinberg, and R. Y. Chiao, "Proposal for a loophole-free Bell inequality experiment," Phys. Rev. A 49, 3209-3220 (1994). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
M. Fiorentino, G. Messin, C. E. Kuklewicz, F. N. C. Wong, and J. H. Shapiro, "Generation of ultrabright tunable polarization entanglement without spatial, spectral, or temporal constraints," Phys. Rev. A 69, 041801 (2004). [CrossRef]
T. Kim, M. Fiorentino, and F. N. C. Wong, "Phase-stable source of polarization-entangled photons using a polarization Sagnac interferometer," Phys. Rev. A 73, 012316 (2006). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

P. G. Kwiat, K. Mattle, H. Weinfurter, A. Zeilinger, A. V. Sergienko, and Y. Shih, "New High-Intensity Source of Polarization-Entangled Photon Pairs," Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4337-4341 (1995). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
P. J. Mosley, J. S. Lundeen, B. J. Smith, P. Wasylczyk, A. B. U’Ren, C. Silberhorn, and I. A.Walmsley, "Heralded Generation of Ultrafast Single Photons in Pure Quantum States," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133601 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
A. Aspect, P. Grangier, and G. Roger, "Experimental Realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm Gedankenexperiment: A New Violation of Bell’s Inequalities," Phys. Rev. Lett. 49, 91-94 (1982). [CrossRef]
J. F. Clauser, M. A. Horne, A. Shimony, and R. A. Holt, "Proposed Experiment to Test Local Hidden-Variable Theories," Phys. Rev. Lett. 23, 880-884 (1969). [CrossRef]

Other

R. Ursin, T. Jennewein, J. Kofler, J. M. Perdigues, L. Cacciapuoti, C. J. de Matos, M. Aspelmeyer, A. Valencia, T. Scheidl, A. Fedrizzi, A. Acin, C. Barbieri, G. Bianco, C. Brukner, J. Capmany, S. Cova, D. Giggenbach, W. Leeb, R. H. Hadfield, R. Laflamme, N. Lutkenhaus, G. Milburn, M. Peev, T. Ralph, J. Rarity, R. Renner, E. Samain, N. Solomos, W. Tittel, J. P. Torres, M. Toyoshima, A. Ortigosa-Blanch, V. Pruneri, P. Villoresi, I. Walmsley, G. Weihs, H. Weinfurter, M. Zukowski, and A. Zeilinger, "Space-QUEST: Experiments with quantum entanglement in space," (2008). URL http://www.citebase.org/abstract?id=oai:arXiv.org:0806.0945.
R. Chen (2006). Personal communication.
W. Grice (2008). Personal communication.

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