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Frontiers in Optics

Combining Photonic Sources to Produce Entanglement

Virginia O. Lorenz

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

We investigate creation of entanglement by merging two photon-pair sources using interferometers that optimize spatial and temporal overlap, erasing ‘which-path’ information without intrinsic loss, a crucial feature for loop-hole free tests and various quantum protocols.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2013.fth1b.6

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