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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

A Fiber-Based Source of Degenerate Polarization-Entangled Photons in the Telecom Band

Milja Medić, Joseph B. Altepeter, Matthew Hall, Monika Patel, Prem Kumar

Published Jan 1, 2009• 1 citation
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Abstract

We present a high quality degenerate source of polarization-entangled photons (0.96 ± 0.01 fidelity with a maximally entangled state). Reverse Hong-Ou-Mandel interference in an optical-fiber Sagnac loop deterministically separates the indistinguishable photons.
DOI
10.1364/iqec.2009.itue7

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