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| Authors | Xiaoying Li, Paul L. Voss, Jay E. Sharping, Prem Kumar |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0402191 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0402191 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.053601 |
| Journal | Phy. Rev. Lett. vol. 94, 053601 (2005) |
Abstract
We present a fiber based source of polarization-entangled photon pairs that is well suited for quantum communication applications in the 1550nm band of standard fiber-optic telecommunications. Polarization entanglement is created by pumping a nonlinear-fiber Sagnac interferometer with two time-delayed orthogonally-polarized pump pulses and subsequently removing the time distinguishability by passing the parametrically scattered signal-idler photon pairs through a piece of birefringent fiber. Coincidence detection of the signal-idler photons yields biphoton interference with visibility greater than 90%, while no interference is observed in direct detection of either the signal or the idler photons. All four Bell states can be prepared with our setup and we demonstrate violations of CHSH form of Bell's inequalities by up to 10 standard deviations of measurement uncertainty.
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