Restoring dispersion cancellation for entangled photons produced by ultrashort pulses
- 19 October 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 62 (5), 053810
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.62.053810
Abstract
It is a well-known and remarkable fact that in certain coincidence photon-counting experiments with cw-pumped parametric down-converters, the effects of group-velocity dispersion arising from media interposed between source and detectors are completely canceled, even if the media physically affect only one of the photons of the pair. Recently Perina et al. [Phys. Rev. A 59, 2359 (1999)] showed that this phenomenon does not occur when certain classical timing information is available about the arrival of individual photons at the detectors, as is the case when the photon pairs are produced via spontaneous parametric down-conversion using an ultrashort pump pulse. In this paper we show that the nonlocal cancellation of dispersion for such a source of entangled photons can be restored in principle by proper engineering of the source properties. In particular, we describe techniques for recovering interference in coincidence-counting experiments by suppressing distinguishing information without the post selection of photons. Moreover, a precise classical timing signal coincident with the photon pair is still available.Keywords
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