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Preparation of a Single Photon in Time-bin Entangled States via Photon Parametric Interaction

N. Sisakyan, Yu. Malakyan

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0605124

Abstract

A novel method for preparation of a single photon in temporally-delocalized entangled modes is proposed and analyzed. We show that two single-photon pulses propagating in a driven nonabsorbing medium with different group velocities are temporally split under parametric interaction into well-separated pulses. In consequence, the single-photon "time-bin-entangled" states are generated with a programmable entanglement easily controlled by driving field intensity. The experimental study of nonclassical features and nonlocality of generated states by means of balanced homodyne tomography is discussed.

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