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Frontiers in Optics

State-controllable heralding of photon-number entangled states

Young-Sik Ra, Hyang‐Tag Lim, Joo-Eon Oh, Yoon-Ho Kim

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a scheme in which ancillary photons for heralding a photon-number entangled state can control the state to be heralded. This scheme can herald photon-number entangled states having arbitrary number of photons.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2014.fth2c.2

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