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Continuous-variable cluster states based on squeezed quantum microcombs

Ze Wang, Kangkang Li, Yue Wang, Xin Zhou, Y. H. Cheng, Boxuan Jing, Feng-Xiao Sun, Jincheng Li, Zhilin Li, Qihuang Gong, Qiongyi He, Bei‐Bei Li, Qi-Fan Yang

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate entangled qumodes in an optical microresonator with bichromatic pumping. They form a 2-dimensional continuous-variable cluster state via several four-wave mixing processes.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_fs.2024.fth5b.4

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