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Generating Entangled Two-Photon States with Coincident Frequencies

Vittorio Giovannetti, Lorenzo Maccone, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Franco N. C. Wong

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0109135

Abstract

It is shown that parametric downconversion, with a short-duration pump pulse and a long nonlinear crystal that is appropriately phase matched, can produce a frequency-entangled biphoton state whose individual photons are coincident in frequency. Quantum interference experiments which distinguish this state from the familiar time-coincident biphoton state are described.

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