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Research in Optical Sciences

Programmable Virtual Quantum Networks

Seiji Armstrong, Jiří Janoušek, Boris Hage, Jean‐François Morizur, Hans‐A. Bachor, Ping Koy Lam

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report on the experimental preparation of various multi-mode entangled states, with the ability to switch between them in real-time. Up to N-mode entanglement is measured with just one detector, here N = 8.
DOI
10.1364/qim.2012.qw1b.6

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