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Optical Materials

Entangled photon-pair source using a wedge-shaped nonlinear crystal

Tianxuan Feng, Shuyuan Zhang, Tong Wu, Zhiying Song, Lijing Li

Published Oct 4, 2023• 4 citations
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10.1016/j.optmat.2023.114441

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A periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) crystal has been used as an efficient source of non-collinearly generated polarization-entangled photon pairs at 810 and 1550 nm. The PPLN crystal was endowed with a specially designed poling pattern and the entangled photons were generated via the nonlinear optical process of spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC). A novel design based on overlapping two concurrent type-I quasi-phase-matching structures in a single PPLN crystals produced correlated pairs of alternatively polarized photons in largely separated spectral regions. The phase of the resulting two-photon state is directly linked to parameters of the nonlinear grating. Continuous tunability of the generated Bell state, from Phi(+) to Phi(-), has been demonstrated by translating a slightly wedged crystal perpendicular to the pump beam.
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Parametric down-conversion in a nonlinear crystal-generated photon pair in which photons have orthogonal polarization. The pair was emitted in a cone shape for each polarization and collimated by a lens to be doughnut shaped. The doughnutlike photon pair runs collinear to the pump laser. The group delay and walk-off between the orthogonal polarization photons in the pair were compensated passing through a half-wave plate and a nonlinear crystal. Then, the photon doughnut pair was coupled into a $1\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}2$ fiber together with a pump laser, i.e., the intense pump laser was used as a guide for alignment. After the alignment was finished, a cut filter was inserted in the optical path to cut the pump laser transmitting the photon doughnut pair. The coincidence measurement of the output of the $1\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}2$ fiber showed that the photon pairs are entangled in polarization.