High-quality fiber-optic polarization entanglement distribution at 13 μm telecom wavelength

Tian Zhong, Xiaolong Hu, Franco N. C. Wong, Karl K. Berggren, Tony D. Roberts, Philip R. Battle · Optics Letters · 2010

We demonstrate high-quality distribution of 1.3 microm polarization-entangled photons generated from a fiber-coupled periodically poled KTiOPO(4) waveguide over 200 m fiber-optic cables. Time-multiplexed measurements with a 19% efficient superconducting nanowire single-photon detector at the remote location show a detected flux of 5.8 pairs/s at a pump power of 25 microW and an average two-photon quantum-interference visibility of 97.7% without subtraction of accidentals.

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