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EDP Sciences, The European Physical Journal D, 9(67)

DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2013-40102-x

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A polarization maintaining scheme for 1.5 {μ}m polarization entangled photon pair generation in optical fibers

Journal article published in 2013 by Qiang Zhou, Wei Zhang, Tianzhu Niu, Shuai Dong, Yidong Huang, Jiangde Peng
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Abstract

In this paper, the generation of polarization entangled photon pairs at 1.5 {μ}m is experimentally demonstrated utilizing a polarization maintaining all-fiber loop, consisting of a piece of commercial polarization maintaining fiber and a polarization beam splitter/combiner with polarization maintaining fiber pigtails. A quantum state tomography measurement is performed to analyze the entanglement characteristic of the generated quantum state. In the experiment, a polarization entangled Bell state is generated with a entanglement fidelity of 0.97+/-0.03 and a purity of 0.94+/-0.03 demonstrating that the proposed scheme can realize polarization entangled photon pair generation with polarization maintaining property which is desired in applications of quantum communication and quantum information.