Enhanced Type-I Polarization-Entangled Photons Using CW-Diode Laser

摘要

We used two type-I BBO crystals pumped by violet cw-diode laser of relatively wide bandwidth to produce entangled photons of considerable degree of purity. While diode laser serves the mobility and the low-cost of the entangled photons source, suitable temporal compensation is required in this case to recover the purity of the state. We studied also effect of tilting the two-crystal set on overlapping of the SPDC cones.