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Near-ideal All-fiber Nonlocal Dispersion Compensation for Quantum Communications

Rui Ming Chua, James A. Grieve, Alexander Ling

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate an all-fiber based method for the nonlocal compensation of chromatic dispersion. Timing correlations of entangled photon pairs are preserved down to 51ps (close to our instrument limit) over 20km of multi-segmented deployed fiber.
DOI
10.1364/quantum.2022.qtu2a.30

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