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Toward Memory-Assisted Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference Between Two Independent Cavity-Enhanced Photon Pair Sources

Edoardo Buonocore, Sonali Gera, Eden V. Figueroa

Published Jan 1, 2025• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report our progress toward demonstrating memory-assisted Hong-Ou-Mandel interference between independent cavity-enhanced entangled photon pair sources at room temperature as a stepping stone toward a type II quantum repeater.
DOI
10.1364/quantum.2025.qw3a.6

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