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Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference

Long-distance fiber-optic propagation of deterministically-shaped single photons

Daniel Cruz-Delgado, Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias, Héctor Cruz-Ramírez, José Enrique Antonio-Lopez, Sergio G. Leon-Saval, Rodrigo Amezcua‐Correa, Alfred B. U’Ren

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate control over the structure of light at the single-photon level integrating in a single setup i)fiber-based photon pair generation, ii)deterministic/broadband single-photon spatial conversion, and iii)single-photon structure-retaining transmission over 400m of few-mode fiber.
DOI
10.1364/laop.2018.tu3d.5

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