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Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research

Generation of multipartite single photon W states in waveguide lattices

Armando Pérez-Leija, Markus Gräfe, J C Hernández-Herrejón, H. M. Moya-Cessa, Alexander Szameit, Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose a versatile platform for generating multipartite W-states in appropriately engineered on-chip photonic lattices. One and two dimensional waveguide configurations are investigated for producing W-states with predesigned probability amplitudes and relative phases.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2013.qm1e.6

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