An Ultrafast Source of Polarization Entangled Photon Pairs based on a Sagnac Interferometer

This thesis describes the design, development, and implementation of a pulsed source of polarization-entangled photons using spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a Sagnac interferometer. A tangle of 0.9286 ± 0.0015, fidelity to the state (|10〉 + |01〉)/√2 of 0.9798 ± 0.0004 and a brightness of...

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Main Author: Smith, Devin Hugh
Language:en
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4259