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Research in Optical Sciences

Qudit implementations with energy-time entangled photons

Bänz Bessire, Christof Bernhard, Thomas Feurer, André Stefanov

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate qudit encoding in the spectrum of energy-time entangled photons by means of pulse shaping techniques known from ultra-fast laser physics. Quantum state tomography up to d = 4 and Bell test measurements are performed.
DOI
10.1364/qim.2014.qth2a.6

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