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Frontiers in Optics

Generation of Path-Entangled Photons Using an Arrayed Waveguide Grating

Nobuyuki Matsuda, Hidetaka Nishi, Péter Karkus, Tai Tsuchizawa, Koji Yamada, William J. Munro, Kaoru Shimizu, Hiroki Takesue

Published Jan 1, 2016• 1 citation
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Abstract

We demonstrate the on-chip generation of path-entangled photon pairs using an arrayed-waveguide grating with nonlinear input waveguides. The scheme can be extended to the generation of high-dimensional entanglement.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2016.fw3f.6

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