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Phys. Rev. A 77, 062316 (2008) [4 pages]

Demonstration of a scheme for the generation of “event-ready” entangled photon pairs from a single-photon source

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Qiang Zhang1,2, Xiao-Hui Bao1, Chao-Yang Lu1, Xiao-Qi Zhou1, Tao Yang1, Terry Rudolph3,4, and Jian-Wei Pan1,2
1Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale & Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, People’s Republic of China
2Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 12, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
3Optics Section, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BZ, United Kingdom
4Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BW, United Kingdom

Received 18 October 2006; published 12 June 2008

We present a feasible and efficient scheme, and its proof-of-principle demonstration, of creating “event-ready” polarization-entangled photon pairs using only simple linear optical elements and single photons. The quality of entangled photon pairs produced in our experiment is confirmed by a strict violation of Bell’s inequality. This scheme and the associated experimental techniques present a step toward linear optics quantum computation.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.77.062316
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.062316
PACS:
03.67.Mn, 03.65.Ud
 
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