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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Single-shot characterization of two-photon distinguishability with dielectric metasurfaces

Jihua Zhang, Jinyong Ma, Neuton Li, Andrey A. Sukhorukov

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose and fabricate a static dielectric metasurface grating that enables single-shot characterization of the distinguishability between two photons in multiple degrees of freedom including time, spectrum, and polarization.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2022.fm4f.6

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