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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Four-Photon Polarization-Entangled States with Minimal Spectral and Spatial Entanglement

Warren P. Grice, J. Schaake, Travis S. Humble

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present two schemes for generating four-photon states: one for direct GHZ state generation and another yielding an entire class of polarization-entangled states. Both begin with photon pairs having minimal spectral and spatial entanglement.
DOI
10.1364/qels.2012.qf3f.1

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