IEEE Photonics Conference

Summing photon arrival times for dispersion-resilient quantum communications

Benjamin Crockett, Hao Yu, Nicola Montaut, Stefania Sciara, Mario Chemnitz, Sai T Chu, Brent E. Little, David Moss, Zhiming Wang, José Azaña, Roberto Morandotti

Published Nov 10, 2024• 1 citation

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Abstract

We present a generalized description of the effect of dispersion on time-bin entangled photon pairs. Leveraging this framework, we identify a new regime that is resilient to dispersion, allowing for secure communication across dispersive links with low loss by avoiding the use of dispersion-compensating elements.

DOI: 10.1109/ipc60965.2024.10799559

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