Poled-fiber source of broadband polarization-entangled photon pairs
E. Y. Zhu, Zhenzhou Tang, Li Qian, L. G. Helt, Marco Liscidini, John E. Sipe, Costantino Corbari, Albert Canagasabey, Morten Ibsen, Peter G. Kazansky · Optics Letters · 2013
We demonstrate broadband polarization-entangled photon pair generation in a poled fiber phase matched for Type II downconversion in the 1.5 μm telecom band. Even with signal-idler separation greater than 100 nm, we observe fringe visibilities greater than 97% and tangle greater than 0.8. A Hong-Ou-Mandel interference experiment is also used to experimentally confirm the broadband nature of the entanglement.