Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Bell States Generation within the Bandwidth of Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion

G. Brida, Marco Genovese, Leonid A. Krivitsky, Maria V. Chekhova

Published Jun 1, 2007• 0 citations

Abstract

Summary form only given. Most works on Bell state generation via spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) do not consider the structure of its spectral line. However, we show that within the SPDC bandwidth, various Bell states can be produced.

DOI: 10.1109/cleoe-iqec.2007.4386941

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