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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Maximally Polarization Entangled Photons on a Chip

Sergei V. Zhukovsky, L. G. Helt, Payam Abolghasem, Dongpeng Kang, Amr Saher Helmy, John E. Sipe

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

Spontaneous parametric downconversion in Bragg reflection waveguides is shown to produce maximally polarization-entangled photons by making the group velocities of TE-/TM-polarized downconverted photons, and thus their spectral properties, similar.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2012.jw4a.111

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