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American Physical Society, Physical Review A, 1(86)

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.86.011801

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Plasmonic Nanoantennas for Efficient Control of Polarization-Entangled Photon Pairs

Journal article published in 2012 by Ivan S. Maksymov ORCID, Andrey E. Miroshnichenko ORCID, Yuri S. Kivshar
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Abstract

We suggest a novel source of polarization-entangled photon pairs based on a cross-shaped plasmonic nanoantenna driven by a single quantum dot. The integration of the nanoantenna with a metal mirror overcomes the fundamental tradeoff between the spontaneous emission (SE) enhancement and the extraction efficiency typical of microcavity and nanowire-based architectures. With a very-high extraction efficiency of entangled photons (~90%) at 1.55 um and large SE enhancement (~90) over a broad 330 nm spectral range, the proposed design will pave the way toward reliable integrated sources of nonclassical light.