Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Quantum interferometry through cascading broadband entanglement sources

Arash Riazi, C. Chen, E. Y. Zhu, Alexey V. Gladyshev, Peter G. Kazansky, John E. Sipe, Li Qian

Published Jan 1, 2018• 1 citation

Abstract

We demonstrate broadband (~100nm) quantum interference in telecom frequencies in an all-fiber system with cascaded SPDC sources. Its applications in dispersion metrology and quantum state engineering are also demonstrated.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2018.fm4g.7

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