Quantum storage of entangled telecom-wavelength photons in an erbium-doped optical fibre

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 83-87

  Saglamyurek, Erhan ^a   Jin, Jeongwan ^a   Verma, Varun B ^b   Shaw, Matthew D ^c   Marsili, Francesco ^c   Nam, Sae Woo ^b   Oblak, Daniel ^a   Tittel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; LIGHT; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SILICA; TEXTILE FIBERS;

ATOMIC QUANTUM MEMORY; BROADBAND LIGHT; FIBRE OPTIC LINKS; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; QUANTUM MEMORY; QUANTUM NETWORK; STATES OF LIGHT; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 84923183677     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.311     Document Type: Article

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