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Frontiers in Optics

A New “Sausage” Source of Entangled Photon Pairs in Polarization-Maintaining Fiber

Evan Meyer-Scott, Jean-Philippe Bourgoin, Lynden K. Shalm, Brendon L. Higgins, Thomas D. Jennewein, Vincent Roy

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a source of entangled photon pairs based on standard polarization-maintaining fiber in a novel architecture. Sections of fibre are spliced together with perpendicular polarization axes, allowing single-path entanglement generation.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2012.fw6c.12

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