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arXiv:quant-ph/0610145 · Physical Review A

Demonstration of a scheme for the generation of “event-ready” entangled photon pairs from a single-photon source

Qiang Zhang, Xiao‐Hui Bao, Chao‐Yang Lu, Xiaoqi Zhou, Tao Yang, Terry Rudolph, Jian-Wei Pan

Published Jun 12, 2008• 60 citations
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Abstract

We present a feasible and efficient scheme, and its proof-of-principle demonstration, of creating ``event-ready'' polarization-entangled photon pairs using only simple linear optical elements and single photons. The quality of entangled photon pairs produced in our experiment is confirmed by a strict violation of Bell's inequality. This scheme and the associated experimental techniques present a step toward linear optics quantum computation.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.77.062316

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