Title
Flexible Entanglement Distribution Based on WDM and Active Switching Technology
Abstract
In future, the distribution of single or entangled photons inside optical networks will be a prerequisite for a general roll-out and adoption of quantum communication technologies. In particular, on-demand routing and active wavelength allocation will be needed to meet the demand of complex network architectures. In the last years several attempts have been made, based either on passive optical WDM technology or active switching of channels. Here we present a novel approach whereby we combine spectral slicing of the emission spectrum of photon-pair sources together with space-switches to generate a reconfigurable distribution node for entanglement. The increased switching complexity offered by our hybrid solution allows us to realise quantum reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs) with up to three degrees.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICTON.2019.8840354
2019 21st International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
quantum communication,entanglement distribution,optical switching,quantum ROADM
Conference
2162-7339
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-2780-4
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Fabian Laudenbach100.34
Bernhard Schrenk200.34
Michael Hentschel303.38
Hannes Hubel400.34