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Frontiers in Optics

Disentanglement due to polarization mode dispersion in optical fibers: from nonlocal compensation to entanglement sudden death

Misha Brodsky, Cristian Antonelli, Mark Shtaif

Published Jan 1, 2010• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propagate pairs of polarization-entangled photons through optical fibers with polarization-mode dispersion (PMD). We observe non-local PMD compensation and the transition to sudden death of entanglement when the alignment of the compensating element is varied.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2010.ftuv3

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