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Experimental demonstration of optical packet switching in quantum wrapper networks

Mehmet Berkay On, Sunil Kumar Singh, G. Gül, Gregory S. Kanter, Roberto Proietti, Prem Kumar, S. J. Ben Yoo

Published Nov 13, 2023• 0 citations
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate optical packet switching for quantum payloads and classical burst headers in a three-node quantum wrapper network. Further, we record coincidence count distributions of polarization-entangled photon pairs between the source node and two distinct destination nodes and measure the coincidence-to-accidental ratio above 6.02.

DOI
10.1049/icp.2023.2342

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