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Chinese Physics Letters

An Optimum Scheme to Generate Entangled Photon Pairs

Gao Xiang, Xiaolu Wang, Jiaming Li

Published Jun 28, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

An optimum scheme is proposed to generate a strong entangled photon-pair light source by combining two incident laser lights. Such entangled photon source should have various potential applications in many fields such as quantum metrology, quantum information, and quantum lithography, etc.
DOI
10.1088/0256-307x/24/7/005

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