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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Quantum walks of self-collimated photons

Qi Fan, Yufei Wang, Qingyan Ma, Wanhua Zheng

Published Jan 1, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate single-photon quantum walks in self-collimated photonic crystal chip. Similarities between theoretical expectations and experimental results are higher than 0.98. The structure is compact and possesses potential to construct complicated linear quantum circuits.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2016.ff2b.1

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