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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Transverse-Mode-Entangled Photon-Pair Generation in Optical Fiber

D.-B. Kim, X.-Y. Hu, S. Li, Joel A. Carpenter, Alfred B. U’Ren, Karina Garay-Palmett, Virginia O. Lorenz

Published Jan 1, 2022• 2 citations
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Abstract

We present our experimental results on generating photon pairs entangled in a transverse-mode Bell state in few-mode optical fiber by controlling the transverse mode of the pump to selectively excite spontaneous four-wave mixing processes.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2022.ff2j.2

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