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Two-mode squeezing over deployed fiber coexisting with conventional communications

Joseph C. Chapman, Alexander Miloshevsky, Hsuan‐Hao Lu, Nageswara S. V. Rao, Muneer Alshowkan, Nicholas A. Peters

Published Jan 1, 2023• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate distribution of two-mode squeezing to two separate locations and implement joint homodyne detection. We also show multiplexing with multiple clas-sical signals. We distribute squeezing over several 5-km spools and 0.5-km deployed fiber.
DOI
10.1364/quantum.2023.qtu3a.22

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