National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC)

Loss of Polarization Entanglement in Optical Fibers due to Polarization Mode Dispersion

Misha Brodsky, Elizabeth C. George, Cristian Antonelli, Mark Shtaif

Published Jan 1, 2010• 1 citation

Abstract

We perform quantum tomography measurements on polarization-entangled photon pairs traversing fibers with birefringence. We find that the entanglement disappears gradually if the birefringence affects only one photon of the pair. A theory supports our observations.

DOI: 10.1364/nfoec.2010.pdpa1

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