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arXiv:0909.0078 · Physical Review A

Phase compensation enhancement of photon pair entanglement generated from biexciton decay in quantum dots

Zong‐Quan Zhou, Chuan‐Feng Li, Geng Chen, Jian‐Shun Tang, Yang Zou, Ming Gong, Guang‐Can Guo

Published Jun 10, 2010• 10 citations
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Abstract

Exciton fine-structure splittings within quantum dots introduce phase differences between the two biexciton decay paths that greatly reduce the entanglement of photon pairs generated via biexciton recombination. We analyze this problem in the frequency domain and propose a practicable method to compensate the phase difference by inserting a spatial light modulator, which substantially improves the entanglement of the photon pairs without any loss.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.81.064302

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