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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

High dimensional frequency-bin entanglement from domain engineered parametric downconversion

Christopher L. Morrison, Francesco Graffitti, Joseph Ho, Peter Barrow, Alessandro Fedrizzi

Published Jan 1, 2021• 1 citation
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Abstract

We demonstrate the generation of high-dimensional frequency entangled photon pairs using domain engineered parametric down conversion. A natural application of this source would be multi-user quantum key distribution using ITU standard wavelength division multiplexing systems.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2021.fm1n.1

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