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Building a Prototype of a Memory-assisted Quantum Repeater Network

Sonali Gera, Steven Sagona-Stophel, Yuanchi Qing, Shane Andrewski, Chase Wallace, Eden V. Figueroa

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations

Abstract

We report on progress toward building a first prototype of an entanglement-based Type IT quantum repeater, comprising two cavity enhanced sources of entangled photon pairs, four room temperature Rb vapor quantum memories and a Bell-state measurement station.

DOI: 10.1364/quantum.2022.qm3b.3

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