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Chip Based Controllable Entanglement Distribution Network

Dongning Liu, Jingyuan Liu, Xiaosong Ren, Xue Feng, Fang Liu, Kaiyu Cui, Yidong Huang, Wei Zhang

Published Jan 1, 2023• 0 citations

Abstract

In this work, we demonstrate a controllable entanglement distribution network chip based on silicon photonics with 3 subnets and 24 users and present its ability of reconfigurable network topology experimentally.

DOI: 10.1364/quantum.2023.qtu3a.27

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