Asia Communications and Photonics Conference

Distribution of Entangled Photon Pairs over Few Mode Fibers

Liang Cui, Jie Su, Xiaoying Li

Published Jan 1, 2016• 2 citations

Abstract

We demonstrate that after distributing in few mode fibers, the measured visibility of entanglement depends on the degree of freedom of entanglement and the spatial mode of photon pairs in transmission fibers.

DOI: 10.1364/acpc.2016.af1d.5

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