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Quantum Information and Measurement (QIM)

Spectral path entanglement of photons using the all-optical Stern-Gerlach effect

Aviv Karnieli, Ady Arie

Published Jan 1, 2019• 1 citation
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Abstract

We show that proper engineering of a nonlinear interaction induces quantum entanglement between the spatial and spectral degrees of freedom of incident photons via the all-optical analogue of the Stern-Gerlach effect.
DOI
10.1364/qim.2019.f5a.31

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