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View SchemaDispersion spreading of polarization-entangled states of light and two-photon interference
| Authors | G. Brida, M. V. Chekhova, M. Genovese, L. A. Krivitsky |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0607137 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0607137 |
| DOI | 10.1134/S1054660X0704041X |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 75, 015801 (2007) |
Abstract
We study the interference structure of the second-order intensity correlation function for polarization-entangled two-photon light obtained from type-II collinear frequency-degenerate spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). The structure is visualised due to the spreading of the two-photon amplitude as two-photon light propagates through optical fibre with group-velocity dispersion (GVD). Because of the spreading, polarization-entangled Bell states can be obtained without any birefringence compensation at the output of the nonlinear crystal; instead, proper time selection of the intensity correlation function is required. A birefringent material inserted at the output of the nonlinear crystal (either reducing the initial o-e delay between the oppositely polarized twin photons or increasing this delay) leads to a more complicated interference structure of the correlation function.
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"title": "Dispersion spreading of polarization-entangled states of light and two-photon interference",
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