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Frontiers in Optics

Local filtering of polarization entangled photon pairs by the components of a telecom network

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

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

By treating the polarization dependent loss of fiber-optic quantum channels as a local filtering operation, we show both theoretically and experimentally how entanglement can be distilled by properly orienting local filters.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2018.jtu3a.61

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