Polarization-entangled photon pairs with factorable spectra engineered by using an uneven four-stage nonlinear interferometer

Liang Cui; Haoran Chen; Jiamin Li; Xiaoying Li

doi:10.3788/COL202422.052701

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 5, 052701(2024)

Polarization-entangled photon pairs with factorable spectra engineered by using an uneven four-stage nonlinear interferometer

Liang Cui¹, Haoran Chen¹, Jiamin Li^1,2, and Xiaoying Li^1、*

Author Affiliations

¹College of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronics Information Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

²School of Physics, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030000, China

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