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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Topologically protected path-entangled photonic states

Andrea Blanco‐Redondo, M. Wang, Cooper Doyle, Bryn A. Bell, Matthew J. Collins, Eric C. Magi, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Mordechai Segev

Published Jan 1, 2020• 1 citation
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Abstract

We report our experimental results on topologically protected path-entangled photonic states using dimer chains in silicon photonics. These results highlight the potential of the lattice topology to protect photonic quantum information.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2020.jm3a.2

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