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Entanglement generation using silicon wire waveguide

Hiroki Takesue

Published Jul 1, 2011• 0 citations

Abstract

Thisd talk describes an entangled photon-pair generation experiment to use a silicon wire waveguide. The results of quantum communication experiments using the silicon-based entanglement sources are also provided.

DOI: 10.1109/phosst.2011.5999937

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