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A Photonic System for Generating Unconditional Polarization-Entangled Photons Based on Multiple Quantum Interference
Published on: September 5, 2019
Optical spin squeezing: bright beams as high-flux entangled photon sources
Federica A Beduini1, Morgan W Mitchell
1ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Mediterranean Technology Park, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.
Abstract:
In analogy with the spin-squeezing inequality of Wang and Sanders [Phys. Rev. A 68, 012101 (2003)], we find inequalities describing macroscopic polarization correlations that are obeyed by all classical fields and whose violation implies entanglement of the photons that make up the optical beam. We consider a realistic and exactly solvable experimental scenario employing polarization-squeezed light from an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) and find polarization entanglement for postselected photon pairs separated by less than the OPO coherence time. The entanglement is robust against losses and extremely bright: efficiency can exceed that of existing "ultrabright" pair sources by at least an order of magnitude. This translation of spin-squeezing inequalities to the optical domain will enable direct tests of discrete-variable entanglement in a squeezed state.
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