• DocumentCode
    1684108
  • Title

    Polarization-entangled photon generation in a standard polarization-maintaining fiber

  • Author

    Fang, Bin ; Cohen, Offir ; Moreno, Jamy B. ; Lorenz, Virginia O.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate the generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs in a standard polarization-maintaining fiber using a Sagnac interferometer. This source´s spatial mode is well matched to fiber-based quantum information networks.
  • Keywords
    Sagnac interferometers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; quantum communication; quantum entanglement; Sagnac interferometer; fiber based quantum information network; polarization entangled photon generation; standard polarization maintaining fiber; Band pass filters; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Photonics; Quantum mechanics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326817