Multidimensional tomography of an entangled photon-pair source using stimulated emission
Bin Fang, Offir Cohen, Marco Liscidini, John E. Sipe, Virginia O. Lorenz · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2017
We perform a multidimensional characterization of a polarization-entangled photon-pair source using stimulated emission tomography (SET). We measure the frequency-resolved polarization density matrix, which is composed of thousands of individual polarization density matrices, each corresponding to a different frequency pair. The measurement exhibits detailed information about correlations that would be difficult to observe using traditional quantum state tomography. This demonstration exhibits the power of SET to characterize a source of quantum states with multi-dimensional correlations and hyper-entanglement. The SET technique can be applied to a variety of photon-pair-based sources for the optimization and engineering of quantum states.