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Frontiers in Optics

Standard Polarization-Maintaining Fiber as a Photon Source for Quantum Communication Applications

Bin Fang, Offir Cohen, Jamy B. Moreno, Virginia O. Lorenz

Published Jan 1, 2012• 1 citation
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Abstract

We investigate state engineering with a standard polarization-maintaining fiber-based photon-pair source, demonstrating the generation of polarization-entangled photons and the ability to tailor spectral entanglement using two distinct pump pulses.
DOI
10.1364/ls.2012.ltu5j.2

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