Continuous variable entanglement measurement without phase-locking

Abstract

In this work, we propose a new simple entanglement measurement scheme, which can be utilized to take a measurement for the bright EPR beams generated by a nondegenerate optical parametric amplifier. Owing to the output signal and idler modes being frequency degenerate and in phase, one need not take a measurement for the signal and idler modes, respectively. By virtue of a quarter-wave plate and a half-wave plate, and then inserting a polarizing beam splitter, one can realize the measurements of the correlated phase quadratures and anti-correlated amplitude quadratures, simultaneously. Therefore, phase-locking and local oscillators are avoided.