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Phys Rev Lett. 2013 Jul 12;111(2):023603. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.023603. Epub 2013 Jul 12.

Compact engineering of path-entangled sources from a monolithic quadratic nonlinear photonic crystal.

Physical review letters

H Jin, P Xu, X W Luo, H Y Leng, Y X Gong, W J Yu, M L Zhong, G Zhao, S N Zhu

Affiliations

  1. National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Physics, and National Center of Microstructures and Quantum Manipulation, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China.

PMID: 23889400 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.023603

Abstract

An integrated realization of photonic entangled states becomes an inevitable tendency toward integrated quantum optics. Here we report the compact engineering of steerable photonic path-entangled states from a monolithic quadratic nonlinear photonic crystal. The crystal acts as a coherent beam splitter to distribute photons into designed spatial modes, producing the heralded single-photon and appealing beamlike two-photon path entanglement. We characterize the path entanglement by implementing quantum spatial beating experiments. Such a multifunctional entangled source can be further extended to the high-dimensional fashion and multiphoton level, which paves a desirable way to engineering miniaturized quantum light sources.

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