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Analysis is given to the effect of polarization deviation due to spontaneous parametric downconversion on the states of polarization-entangled photons generated via a cascaded two-crystal geometry with type I phase matching (e−oo).
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Frolovtsev, D.N., Magnitskiy, S.A. Effect of polarization deviation of spontaneous parametric down-conversion on the degree of biphoton entanglement. Phys. Wave Phen. 25, 180–184 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1541308X17030049
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