Journal of Modern Optics

Two-mode entanglement in passive networks

Päivi Törmä, Igor Jex

Published May 1, 1997• 4 citations

Abstract

We discuss the degree of entanglement for symmetric passive optical networks. As a measure of the entanglement we use the information entropy and compare our results for a general number N of inputs with the known results for a two-mode beam splitter. Special cases of interest are pointed out.

DOI: 10.1080/09500349708230702

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