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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Towards a Fully Connected Many-User Entanglement Distribution Quantum Network Within Deployed Telecommunications Fibre-Optic Infrastructure

M. J. Clark, Obada Alia, R. Wang, Sima Bahrani, Djeylan Aktas, George Theodore Kanellos, Martin Lončarić, Željko Samec, Matej Peranić, Anton Radman, Mario Stipčević, Reza Nejabati, Dimitra E. Simeonidou, John Rarity, Siddarth Koduru Joshi

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present developments in entanglement distribution quantum networks towards a fully connected, scalable, many-user network, which is not limited to simple quantum key distribution protocols.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2022.ff4a.6

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