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International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

A Plug-and-Play Synchronisation Scheme for Quantum Networks

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

Published Jul 1, 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. Our scheme is validated by a two-photon interference visibility greater than 99% at the relay station.
DOI
10.1109/icton.2018.8473736

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