Two-Photon Entanglement and EPR Experiments Using Type-2 Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion

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Sergienko, A. V., Y. H. Shih, T. B. Pittman, and M. H. Rubin. “Two-Photon Entanglement and EPR Experiments Using Type-2 Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion.” Paper presented at Fourth International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations, June 5 - 9, 1996, Shanxi, China. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19960025013.

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Simultaneous entanglement in spin and space-time of a two-photon quantum state generated in type-2 spontaneous parametric down-conversion is demonstrated by the observation of quantum interference with 98% visibility in a simple beam-splitter (Hanburry Brown-Twiss) anticorrelation experiment. The nonlocal cancellation of two-photon probability amplitudes as a result of this double entanglement allows us to demonstrate two different types of Bell's inequality violations in one experimental setup.