Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Polarization Entangled Photon Pairs with Factorable Spectra Engineered by Un-even Three-stage Nonlinear Interferometers

Pengyu Gao, Mingyi Ma, Liang Cui, Xiaoying Li

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations

Abstract

Polarization-entangled photon pairs with factorable spectra are generated by using a nonlinear interferometer, in which three nonlinear fibers with lengths following binomial distribution are sandwiched with two 10-m-long standard single mode fibers.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2021.fth1o.6

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