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High Brightness programmable source of frequency-bin qubits.

Marco Clementi, Federico Andrea Sabattoli, Houssein El Dirani, Nicola Bergamasco, Linda Gianini, Laurène Youssef, Camille Petit-Étienne, E. Pargon, Marco Liscidini, Corrado Sciancalepore, Mattéo Galli, Daniele Bajoni

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

A high brightness silicon integrated source of entangled frequency-bins is presented. We experimentally demonstrate programmable emission of both computational basis states and Bell states.
DOI
10.1364/quantum.2022.qw3b.5

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