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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Enabling Scalability of Photonic Frequency-Domain Quantum Processing

Anahita Khodadad Kashi, Michael Kues

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

Via a reconfigurable photonic frequency circuit, we show spectral bosonic and fermionic Houng-Ou-Mandel interference between independently created pure single photons, demonstrating photon number scalability and versatility of the frequency processing approach.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2021.fm1n.4

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