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Optical Fiber Communication Conference

Fiber-Based Entangled Photon Sources and Their Applications

Alan L. Migdall, Jingyun Fan, J. Chen, Alexander Ling, Sergey V. Polyakov

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present an overview of how fiber-based sources of entangled photons have evolved to meet the requirements of quantum-information applications and we present one of those applications, one that addresses an ancient philosophical question.
DOI
10.1364/ofc.2009.omp1

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