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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Tomographic characterization of fiber-generated polarization-entangled Bell states

Milja Medić, Kim Fook Lee, Joseph B. Altepeter, Burç Gökden, Chuang Liang, Sae Woo Nam, Prem Kumar

Published Sep 9, 2007• 1 citation
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Abstract

We describe a fiber-based telecom-band polarization-entangled photon-pair source. Preliminary experimental results of tomographic reconstruction of all four Bell states generated by this source are presented. They show that a fiber source is an excellent producer of entangled photon-pairs for practical quantum communications.
DOI
10.1117/12.734503

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