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Frontiers in Optics

Nonlinear Waveguide Source of Entangled Photon Pairs in Single Spatial Modes

Michał Karpiński, Czesław Radzewicz, Konrad Banaszek

Published Jan 1, 2011• 1 citation
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Abstract

We demonstrate effective control of spatial degrees of freedom for photon pairs generated in a multimode nonlinear waveguide by dispersive properties of the structure. This is confirmed by observation of Shih-Alley polarization entanglement.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2011.fthl5

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