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Time-resolved homodyne characterization of individual quadrature-entangled pulses

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We describe a simple and efficient set-up to generate and characterize femtosecond quadrature-entangled pulses. Quantum correlations equivalent to about 2.5 dB squeezing are efficiently and easily reached using the non-degenerate parametric amplification of femtosecond pulses through a single-pass in a thin (100 μm) potassium niobate crystal. The entangled pulses are then individually sampled to characterize the non-separability and the entropy of formation of the states. The complete experiment is analysed in the time-domain, from the pulsed source of quadrature entanglement to the time-resolved homodyne detection. This particularity allows for applications in quantum communication protocols using continuous-variable entanglement.

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  1. Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l’Institut d’Optique, CNRS UMR 8501, 91403, Orsay, France

    J. Wenger, A. Ourjoumtsev, R. Tualle-Brouri & P. Grangier

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Wenger, J., Ourjoumtsev, A., Tualle-Brouri, R. et al. Time-resolved homodyne characterization of individual quadrature-entangled pulses. Eur. Phys. J. D 32, 391–396 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2004-00190-3

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