Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 56, Issue 4, 043002(2019)

Property of Entangled Photon Pairs Generated via Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion

Yuanyuan Song1, Ding Chen2, and Shuang Cong1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1 Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, China
  • 2 State Key Laboratory of Space-Ground Integrated Information Technology, Beijing Institute of Satellite Information Engineering, Beijing 100086, China
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    The type-II spontaneous parametric down conversion is used to prepare the entangled photon pairs. In the Mathematica environment, the properties of frequency entanglement, frequency correlation, quantum interference and the influences of parameters for pulse and crystal on the properties are analyzed. The results show that the continuous optical pumping can be used to obtain the maximum frequency entanglement and interference visibility. When the spectral width of pulsed laser is constant, as the nonlinear crystal thickness increases, the combined two-photon spectra become narrow, the frequency entanglement increases, the indistinguishability decreases, and the interference visibility decreases. In contrast, when the nonlinear crystal thickness is constant, as the spectral width of pulsed laser decreases, the combined two-photon spectra become narrow, the frequency entanglement increases, the indistinguishability increases, and the interference visibility increases. For different parameters of the combined spectral function, a photon pair with frequency anti-correlation, non-correlation and positive correlation can be obtained.

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    Paper Information

    Category: Spectroscopy

    Received: Jul. 6, 2018

    Accepted: Sep. 4, 2018

    Published Online: Jul. 31, 2019

    The Author Email: Cong Shuang (scong@ustc.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP56.043002

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