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All-optical synchronization for quantum networking

Sébastien Tanzilli, Florian Kaiser, Bruno Fedrici, Virginia D’Auria, Laurent Labonté, Olivier Alibart, Lutfi Arif Ngah

Published May 21, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report an original all-optical synchronization scheme suitable for a quantum relay based experiments at telecom wavelengths. After discussing the entangled photon sources’ performances, we validate our scheme by performing a two-photon interference at the relay station.
DOI
10.1117/12.2307122

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