High-photon-number path entanglement in the interference of spontaneously down-converted photon pairs with coherent laser light
Holger Friedrich Hofmann, Takafumi Ono · Physical Review A · 2007
We show that the quantum interference between down-converted photon pairs and photons from coherent laser light can produce a maximally path entangled $N$-photon output component with a fidelity greater than 90% for arbitrarily high photon numbers. A simple beam splitter operation can thus transform the two-photon coherence of down-converted light into an almost optimal $N$-photon coherence.