Pulsed-Diode-Pumped, Fiber-Based Polarization-Entangled Photon Source

Andi Shahaj, Alexander C. B. Greenwood, Jackson Russett, C. Chen, Alexey V. Gladyshev, Peter G. Kazansky, Li Qian

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations

Abstract

We demonstrate a low-cost, fiber-based, pulsed entanglement source, using periodically-poled silica fiber and a pulsed 780nm diode laser, which generates ~1ns pulses of polarization-entangled photon pairs at up to 60MHz, 0.15 pairs/pulse.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2024.ath4g.6

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