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Hybrid Photonic Integrated Circuits for Quantum Communications

Moritz Kleinert, Martin Kresse, Sarah Simon, Maximilian Ott, Jakob Reck, Csongor Keuer, Klara Mihov, Madeleine Weigel, Tianwen Qian, Philipp Winklhofer, David de Felipe, Crispin Zawadzki, Norbert Keil, Martin A. Schell

Published Jan 1, 2024• 1 citation
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Abstract

Hybrid photonic integration is promising for the miniaturization of quantum communications setups. We discuss current integration approaches and present hybrid PICs for the generation of polarization-based quantum states and photon pairs in the PolyBoard platform.
DOI
10.1364/ofc.2024.th3d.2

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