Twin Photon Source at telecom wavelengths

AUREA Technology received the 2014 CLEO/Laser Focus W orl d I n novation Award. AUREA Technology offers the first worldwide high-brightness stand-alone Entangled Photon Pair Source at telecom wavelengths, ideal for quantum information technologies. The TPS photon-pair source series are high-performance, compact and easy-to-use self-contained twin photon source. With only 5mW of pump power, it performs a spectral brightness of more than 100,000 photons/s/pm! This innovative twin-photon source is very well designed. It provides a very convenient front-panel display and easy-to-use PC Graphical User Interface via its fast USB connection. Moreover, DLL libraries are also provided for LabVIEW, C++, and Visual basic user interface developments. Entangled photons have appeared to be a promising way for both demonstrating quantum physics principles, and new quantum information applications. For example, entangled photons allows the development of Quantum Key Distribution protocols over few hu