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Experimental heralded amplification of time-bin qubits

Natalia Bruno, Vittorio Pini, Anthony Martin, Nicolas Sangouard, Hugo Zbinden, Nicolas Gisin, Rob Thew

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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We present an experimental realisation of heralded amplification of time-bin qubits for quantum communication, based on a source of separable photons at telecom wavelengths, with Hong-Ou-Mandel visibility > 90% without any filtering and high coupling efficiency.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2014.fm4a.7

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