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International Conference on Quantum Information

Entangled Photon Spectroscopy and Communications Based on Semiconductor Two-Photon Process

Alex Hayat, Pavel Ginzburg, Meir Orenstein

Published Jan 1, 2007• 1 citation
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Abstract

We propose an entanglement-based scheme for spectroscopy and communications consisting of semiconductor two-photon emission entanglement source and two-photon absorption low-noise infrared detector having linear dependence and thus highly efficient for entangled photon pairs.
DOI
10.1364/icqi.2007.jwc63

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