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Hyper-entangled Photon Pairs Using Integrated Optical Waveguide Device

Jasleen Lugani, Sankalpa Ghosh, Krishnan Thyagarajan

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations

Abstract

We propose a scheme for the generation of hyper-entangled photon pairs using an integrated optical waveguide device; the biphoton output state is simultaneously entangled in polarization and spatial modal degrees of freedom.

DOI: 10.1364/photonics.2012.m2b.2

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