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Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition

Metasurface Mediated Single Photon Emission into Highly Entangled States

Shailesh Kumar, Xujing Liu, Yinhui Kan, Liudmilla F. Kulikova, Валерий Александрович Давыдов, V. Agafonov, Changying Zhao, Fei Ding, Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

Entanglement between orbital angular momentum states and polarization states of single photons is demonstrated experimentally. This is achieved by utilizing metasurfaces for channeling photons from single quantum emitters into highly entangled states.
DOI
10.1364/quantum.2024.qw3a.34

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