High-quality source of fiber-coupled polarization-entangled photons at 1.56 [mu]m

This thesis describes the development of a high-quality source of single-mode fibercoupled polarization-entangled photon pairs based on a collinear spontaneous parametric down-conversion process in a bidirectionally pumped periodically-poled potassium titanyl phosphate (PPKTP) crystal inside a polarization Sagnac interferometer at communication wavelength (1.56 [mu]m). A two-photon quantum interference visibility of 97.1% was measured. In addition to the Sagnac source, a linear Mach-Zehnder source at 810 nm was built for the Interdisciplinary Quantum Information Science and Engineering (iQuISE) teaching laboratory, to allow students to observe fundamental quantum phenomena such as the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) dip, the collapse of a Bell state due to measurement, or the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality violation in a single experimental setup. An HOM dip with a two-photon quantum interference visibility of 80% was demonstrated.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Stelmakh, Veronika

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Franco N.C. Wong.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/75688

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/75688