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A Photonic System for Generating Unconditional Polarization-Entangled Photons Based on Multiple Quantum Interference
Published on: September 5, 2019
Variable ultrabroadband and narrowband composite polarization retarders
Thorsten Peters1, Svetoslav S Ivanov, Daniel Englisch
1Institut für Angewandte Physik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. thorsten.peters@physik.tu‐darmstadt.de
Abstract:
We propose and experimentally demonstrate novel types of composite sequences of half-wave and quarter-wave polarization retarders, permitting operation at either ultrabroad spectral bandwidth or narrow bandwidth. The retarders are composed of stacked standard half-wave retarders and quarter-wave retarders of equal thickness. To our knowledge, these home-built devices outperform all commercially available compound retarders, made of several birefringent materials.
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