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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 17, Issue 21, Pages 18920-18933Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.018920
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- National Science Foundation [EIA-0121568]
- MURI Center for Photonic Quantum Information Systems [DAAD19-03-1-0199]
- IARPA [W911NF-05-0397]
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Optical quantum information processing needs ultra-bright sources of entangled photons, especially from synchronizable femtosecond lasers and low-cost cw-diode lasers. Decoherence due to timing information and spatial mode-dependent phase has traditionally limited the brightness of such sources. We report on a variety of methods to optimize type-I polarization-entangled sources - the combined use of different compensation techniques to engineer high-fidelity pulsed and cw-diode laser-pumped sources, as well as the first production of polarization-entanglement directly from the highly nonlinear biaxial crystal BiB3O6 (BiBO). Using spatial compensation, we show more than a 400-fold improvement in the phase flatness, which otherwise limits efficient collection of entangled photons from BiBO, and report the highest fidelity to date (99%) of any ultrafast polarization-entanglement source. Our numerical code, available on our website, can design optimal compensation crystals and simulate entanglement from a variety of type-I phasematched nonlinear crystals. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America
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