Generation of polarization-entangled photons by type-II quasi-phase-matched waveguide nonlinear-optic device

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1093-1095

  Suhara, T ^a   Okabe, H ^a   Fujimura, M ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Integrated optics; Quantum entanglement; Quasi phase matching (QPM); Twin photon

Indexed keywords

PHOTON POLARIZATION; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUASI-PHASE MATCHING; TWIN PHOTON;

PHASE MATCHING; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; WAVEGUIDES;

INTEGRATED OPTICS;

EID: 34447540091     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.900060     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. K. Sanaka, K. Kawahara, and T. Kuga, "New high-efficiency source of photon pairs for engineering quantum entanglement," Phys. Rev. Lett. vol. 86, no. 24, pp. 5620-5623, 2001.
2. S. Tanzilli, W. Tittel, H. D. Riedmatten, H. Zbinden, P. Baldi, M. D. Micheli, D. B. Ostrowsky, and N. Gisin, "PPLN waveguide for quantum communication," Eur. Phys. J. D, vol. 18, pp. 155-160, 2002.
3. T. Suhara, "Quantum photonic devices" Waveguide NLO devices and semiconductor lasers for generation of squeezed light and correlated twin photons," in Eur. Conf. Integrated Optics, Prague, Czech Republic, Apr. 1-4, 2003, pp. 73-84, Paper ThP1.
4. T. Suhara and M. Fujimura, Waveguide Nonlinear-Optic Devices. Berlin" Springer, 2003.
5. A. Yoshizawa, R. Kaji, and H. Tsuchida, "Generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs at 1550 nm using two PPLN waveguides," Electron. Lett., vol. 39, no. 7, pp. 621-622, 2003.
6. S. Tanzilli, W. Tittel, M. Halder, O. Alibart, P. Baldi, N. Gisin, and H. Zbinden, "A photonic quantum information interface," Nature, vol. 437, pp. 116-120, 2005.
7. D. Bouwmeester, A. Ekert, and A. Zeilinger, Eds., The Physics of Quantum Information. Berlin" Springer, 2000.
8. X. Li, P. L. Voss, J. E. Sharping, and P. Kumar, "Optical-fiber source of polarization-entangled photons in the 1550 nm telecom band," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 94, no. 053601, 2005.
9. H. Takesue and K. Inoue, "Generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs and violation of Bell's inequality using spontaneous four-wave mixing in a fiber loop," Phys. Rev. A, vol. 70, no. 031802, 2004.
10. T. Suhara and H. Kintaka, "Quantum theory analysis of twin-photon beams generated by parametric fluorescence," IEEE J. Quantum Electron, vol. 45, no. 9, pp. 1203-1212, Sep. 2005.
11. T. Suhara and T. Nosaka, "Quantum theory analysis of loss effects in guided nonlinear-optic twin-photon generation," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 42, no. 8, pp. 777-784, Aug. 2006.
12. 3 quasi-phase matched waveguide pumped by semiconductor laser," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol. 43, no. 5A, pp. 2545-2546, 2004.
13. 3 waveguide," IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett., vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 124-126, Jan. 1, 2006.
14. Y. Shih, "Entangled photons," IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron. vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 1455-1467, Jun. 2003.