Generation of high-purity entangled photon pair in a short highly nonlinear fiber

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Article

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1-1-2013

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We generate photon pairs at telecom wavelength through a spontaneous four-wave mixing process in a short 10mof highly nonlinear fiber. We use a counterpropagating scheme to generate a correlated and entangled photon pair. We observe coincidence to accidental-coincidence ratio of 29 ± 3 at room temperature (300 K) and as high as 130 ± 5 when the fiber is cooled to liquid-nitrogen temperature (77 K). Two-photon interference with visibility > 98% (> 92%) and the violation of Bell's inequality by > 12 (̃5) standard deviation are observed at 77 K (300 K), respectively, without subtracting accidental-coincidence count. We obtain a photon-pair production rate about factor 3(2) higher than a 300 m dispersion-shifted fiber at 300 K (77 K). © 2012 Optical Society of America.

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Optics Letters

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