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Experimental Reconstruction of Time-Bin-Entangled Qutrit States using Polarization Projective Measurements

Samantha J. Nowierski, Neal N. Oza, Prem Kumar, Gregory S. Kanter

Published Jan 1, 2015• 4 citations
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Abstract

We generate and reconstruct two-photon, 100-ps-separated time-bin-entangled qutrit states. By pairwise mapping time bins onto orthogonal polarizations, we perform a tomography and demonstrate high fidelity to maximally entangled qutrit states
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2015.ftu2a.5

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