Title :
Engineering entangled-photon states using two-dimensional PPLN crystals
Author :
De Chatellus, Hugues Guillet ; Di Giuseppe, Giovanni ; Sergienko, Alexander V. ; Saleh, Bahaa E A ; Teich, Malvin C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Boston Univ., MA, USA
Abstract :
We propose to use periodically poled lithium niobate crystals (PPLN) as a source of specially engineered entangled photon pairs. We demonstrate the generation of polarization-entangled states using one-dimensional PPLN, and frequency-entangled states using two-dimensional PPLN.
Keywords :
light polarisation; lithium compounds; optical frequency conversion; optical materials; quantum entanglement; quantum optics; LiNbO/sub 3/; PPLN crystals; engineered entangled-photon states; frequency-entangled states; one-dimensional PPLN; periodically poled lithium niobate; polarization-entangled states; spontaneous parametric down conversion; two-dimensional crystals;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
