Phase-controlled heralding of photon-number entangled states

Young-Sik Ra, Hyang‐Tag Lim, Joo-Eon Oh, Yoon-Ho Kim

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations

Abstract

We report the generation of a photon-number entangled state in which detection of ancillary photons heralds the generation of the entangled state as well as its phase. Our scheme can operate with separable input states.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2014.jtu4a.39

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