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Quantum Communication using Integrated Silicon Photonics

Shayan Mookherjea

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

Silicon photonic microring resonators have made major recent improvements in high-quality entangled photon pair photon generation, with CAR > 19,000 and g2(0) < 0.006. They are now being used in prototypical quantum communication links.
DOI
10.1364/cleopr.2018.w4h.1

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