Abstract
We report the generation and characterization of a frequency anti-correlated entangled biphoton source at the wavelength of 1560nm via a continuous-wave laser pumped spontaneous parametric down-conversion process. The spectra of the signal and idler photons are measured to have their center wavelength being 1559.7nm and 1559.8nm while their 3-dB bandwidths being 3.2nm and 3.15nm respectively. The joint spectrum of the photon pair is observed to be frequency anti-correlated and have a spectral bandwidth of 0.5nm. According to the ratio of the single-photon spectral bandwidth to the joint spectral bandwidth of the photon pairs, the degree of frequency entanglement is quantified to be 6.4. By investigating the relative overlap between the achieved two-photon spectral intensity function and its transpose, the spectral indisinguishablity of the photon pairs is expected to be 90%. Based on a HOM interferometric coincidence measurement setup, a visibility of 89.8% is demonstrated, which shows a good agreement with the expectation.
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