European Conference on Optical Communication

Disappearance of polarization entanglement due to the relative orientation of two fiber's PMD vectors

Misha Brodsky, Cristian Antonelli, Mark Shtaif

Published Sep 1, 2010• 1 citation

Abstract

We study propagation of polarization-entangled photon pairs through optical fibers with polarization-mode dispersion (PMD). We observe abrupt loss and revival of entanglement as the PMD vector of one fiber rotates relative to the PMD vector of the other fiber.

DOI: 10.1109/ecoc.2010.5621289

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