Innovative method to investigate how the spatial correlation of the pump beam affects the purity of polarization entangled states

Simone Cialdi*, Davide Brivio, Andrea Tabacchini, Ali Mohammed Kadhim, Matteo G A Paris

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Abstract

We present an innovative method to address the relation between the purity of type-I polarization entangled states and the spatial properties of the pump laser beam. Our all-optical apparatus is based on a spatial light modulator, and it offers unprecedented control on the spatial phase function of the entangled states. In this way, we demonstrate quantitatively the relation between the purity of the generated state and the spatial field correlation function of the pump beam.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3951-3953
Number of pages3
JournalOptics Letters
Volume37
Issue number19
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2012

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