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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

A Reconfigurable Quantum Local Area Network Over Deployed Fiber

Muneer Alshowkan, Brian P. Williams, Philip G. Evans, Nageswara S. V. Rao, Emma M. Simmerman, Navin B. Lingaraju, Hsuan‐Hao Lu, Andrew M. Weiner, Nicholas A. Peters, Joseph M. Lukens

Published Jan 1, 2021• 5 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a three-node telecom quantum local area network over deployed fiber. It has eight independent entanglement channels which are dynamically reconfigurable. We successfully show entanglement demand balancing across the network and quantify its quality.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2021.ff2j.4

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