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Quantum Repeater for Spectrally Entangled Photons

Warren P. Grice, Raphael C. Pooser, Brian P. Williams

Published Jan 1, 2014• 1 citation
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Abstract

We describe a quantum repeater architecture for spectrally entangled photons based on sum frequency. The repeater, which does not require a conventional quantum memory, includes a novel scheme for re-using unconverted photons.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2014.ftu1a.6

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