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Frontiers in Optics

Electro-optically Switchable Modal Entangled Photon Pairs from Integrated Optic Mach Zehnder Interferometer

Jasleen Lugani, Sankalpa Ghosh, Krishna Thyagarajan

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose a scheme for generating spatial modal entangled photon pairs; using a modified integrated optic Mach-Zehnder interferometer and show the possibility of manipulating the output entangled state using an electro-optic switch.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2012.fw3a.53

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