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Optical Fiber Communication Conference

Polarization dependent loss in optical fibers - does it help or ruin photon entanglement distribution?

Daniel E. Jones, Brian T. Kirby, Michael Brodsky

Published Jan 1, 2018• 1 citation
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Abstract

We experimentally investigate propagation of polarization-entangled photon pairs through two fibers with PDL. We compensate the effect of PDL in one fiber by properly aligning the second fiber's aggregate PDL. A theory supports our observations.
DOI
10.1364/ofc.2018.th4b.1

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