• DocumentCode
    2845499
  • Title

    Disappearance of polarization entanglement due to the relative orientation of two fiber´s PMD vectors

  • Author

    Brodsky, Misha ; Antonelli, Cristian ; Shtaif, Mark

  • Author_Institution
    AT&T Labs., Middletown, NJ, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We study propagation of polarization-entangled photon pairs through optical fibers with polarization-mode dispersion (PMD). We observe abrupt loss and revival of entanglement as the PMD vector of one fiber rotates relative to the PMD vector of the other fiber.
  • Keywords
    optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; quantum entanglement; optical fibers; optical loss; polarization-entangled photon pairs; polarization-mode dispersion; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber networks; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber theory; Photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621289
  • Filename
    5621289