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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Quantum Communication with Temporal Modes of Pulsed Light

Christine Silberhorn, Vahid Ansari, Markus Allgaier, Benjamin Brecht, Christof Eigner, Georg Harder, Raimund Ricken, Linda Sansoni, Viktor Quiring

Published Jan 1, 2017• 1 citation
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Abstract

We present a framework for quantum communication using temporal modes of quantum light with orthogonal spectral-temporal shapes. These span a high-dimensional Hilbert space and are ideally suited for efficient quantum information coding for network applications.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2017.fth4e.1

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