Heralded-Multiplexed High-Efficiency Cascaded Source of Dual-Rail Polarization-Entangled Photon Pairs using Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion

Prajit Dhara, 2 Spencer J. Johnson, 4 Christos N. Gagatsos, 2 Paul G. Kwiat, 4 and Saikat Guha 2, ∗ Wyant College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719 NSF-ERC Center for Quantum Networks, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85719 Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801 Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801