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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Frequency entanglement swapping

Sofiane Merkouche, Valérian Thiel, Alex O. C. Davis, Brian J. Smith

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

Entanglement swapping of spectrally-entangled photons is experimentally demonstrated. Idler photons from independent entangled pairs are jointly detected after a beamsplitter and frequency filters, projecting the signal photons onto a frequency-bin singlet state.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2018.fm4g.1

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