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Entanglement Diversity in Monolithic Waveguides

Dongpeng Kang, Minseok Kim, Haoyu He, Amr Saher Helmy

Published Jan 1, 2015• 0 citations
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Abstract

The simultaneous generation of both co-polarized and cross-polarized polarization entangled photons from a monolithic semiconductor chip is demonstrated. High quality entanglement is achieved with no use of any off-chip compensation, interferometry or filtering.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2015.jw2a.2

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