Published March 2005
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Journal article
Efficient and spectrally bright source of polarization-entangled photons
- 1. Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
Description
We demonstrate an efficient fiber-coupled source of nondegenerate polarization-entangled photons at 795 and 1609 nm using bidirectionally pumped parametric down-conversion in bulk periodically poled lithium niobate. The single-mode source has an inferred bandwidth of 50 GHz and a spectral brightness of 300 pairs/(s GHz mW) of pump power that is suitable for narrowband applications such as entanglement transfer from photonic to atomic qubits
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.033805;
- arXiv
- arXiv:quant-ph/0409162v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. A
- Journal Volume
- 71
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 033805-033805.7
- ISSN
- 1050-2947
- CODEN
- PLRAAN
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36090098
- Subject category
- S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BRIGHTNESS; CONVERSION; CORRELATIONS; DATA TRANSMISSION; ENERGY LEVELS; FIBERS; GHZ RANGE; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; NIOBATES; OPTICS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PERIODICITY; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; VISIBLE RADIATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS; AMPLIFIERS; BOSONS; COMMUNICATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EQUIPMENT; FREQUENCY RANGE; MASSLESS PARTICLES; MECHANICS; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATIONS; REFRACTORY METAL COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS; VARIATIONS
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- Notes
- (c) 2005 The American Physical Society