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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/95793| Title: | Passively stable distribution of polarisation entanglement over 192 km of deployed optical fibre |
| Authors: | Wengerowsky, Sören Koduru Joshi, Siddarth Steinlechner, Fabian Zichi, Julien R. Liu, Bo Scheidl, Thomas Dobrovolskiy, Sergiy M. van der Molen, René Los, Johannes W. N. Zwiller, Val Z. Versteegh, Marijn A. M. Mura, Alberto Calonico, Davide Inguscio, Massimo Zeilinger, Anton Xuereb, Andre Ursin, Rupert |
| Keywords: | Quantum entanglement Photonics Quantum optics Optical fibers -- Testing Photons -- Polarization |
| Issue Date: | 2020 |
| Publisher: | Nature |
| Citation: | Wengerowsky, S., Joshi, S. K., Steinlechner, F., Zichi, J. R., Liu, B., Scheidl, T., ... & Ursin, R. (2020). Passively stable distribution of polarisation entanglement over 192 km of deployed optical fibre. npj Quantum Information, 6(1), 1-5. |
| Abstract: | Quantum key distribution (QKD) based on entangled photon pairs holds the potential for repeater-based quantum networks connecting clients over long distance. We demonstrate long-distance entanglement distribution by means of polarisation-entangled photon pairs through two successive deployed 96 km-long telecommunications fibres in the same submarine cable. One photon of each pair was detected directly after the source, while the other travelled the fibre cable in both directions for a total distance of 192 km and attenuation of 48 dB. The observed two-photon Bell state exhibited a fidelity 85 ± 2% and was stable over several hours. We employed neither active stabilisation of the quantum state nor chromatic dispersion compensation for the fibre. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/95793 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacSciPhy |
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