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Frontiers in Optics

Programmable Generalized Time-Bin Measurements using Complex Media

Vatshal Srivastav, Dylan Danese, Saroch Leedumrongwatthanakun, Will McCutcheon, Mehul Malik

Published Jan 1, 2024• 1 citation
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Abstract

We harness the spatio-temporal coupling of light inside a commercial step-index multi-mode fibre to program generalized projective measurements for photonic time-bin in dimension up to 7 and use them to certify high-dimensional time-bin entanglement.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2024.fw6c.2

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