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OSA Advanced Photonics Congress

Photonic qubit entanglement and processing in silicon waveguides

Joshua W. Silverstone, Raffaele Santagati, Damien Bonneau, Michael John Strain, Marc Sorel, Shigehito Miki, Taro Yamashita, Mikio Fujiwara, Masahide Sasaki, Hirotaka Terai, Michael G. Tanner, Chandra M. Natarajan, Robert H. Hadfield, Jeremy L. O’Brien, Mark G. Thompson

Published Jan 1, 2015• 5 citations
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Abstract

We introduce a method for generating entangled and indistinguishable photon pairs on a silicon photonic chip. We verify their indistinguishability by destroying their entanglement using an on-chip post-selected quantum gate.
DOI
10.1364/iprsn.2015.is4a.5

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