Measuring entanglement of photons produced by a pulsed source
arXiv:1312.2515 · doi:10.1364/JOSAB.31.003088
Abstract
A pulsed source of entangled photons is desirable for some applications. Yet, such a source has intrinsic problems arising from the simultaneous arrival of the signal and noise photons to the detectors. These problems are analyzed and practical methods to calculate the number of accidental (or spurious) coincidences are described in detail, and experimentally checked, for the different regimes of interest. The results are useful not only to measure entanglement, but to all the situations where extracting the number of valid coincidences from noisy data is required. As an example of the use of those methods, we present the time-resolved measurement of the Concurrence of the field produced by spontaneous parametric down conversion with pump pulses of duration in the ns-range at a repetition of kHz. The predicted discontinuous evolution of the entanglement at the edges of the pump pulse is observed.
arXiv comment9 pages, 10 or 7 figures (one of the figures includes 4), 28 Refernces
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