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Entanglement-preserving electro-optic photonic router at a telecom wavelength

Pengfei Wang, So-Young Baek, Fumihiro Kaneda

Published Jan 1, 2025• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a low-loss and polarization-entanglement-preserving photonic router at the telecom C-band. The router enables switching an optical path of two-photon polarization-mode N00N states while maintaining its high degree of entanglement.
DOI
10.1364/quantum.2025.qm3a.1

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