Abstract
We use two perpendicular crystals of periodically-poled KTP to directly generate polarization-entangled photon pairs, the majority of which are emitted into a single Gaussian spatial mode. The signal and idler photons have wavelengths of 810 nm and 1550 nm, respectively, and the photon-pair generation rate is 1.2 × 107 sec-1 for a pump power of 62 mW. The apparatus is compact, flexible, and easily to use.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3573-3580 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Optics Express |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 15 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2004 |
| Externally published | Yes |