All-fiber telecom band energy-time entangled biphoton source

Yuting Liu; Junjie Xing; Zhiguang Xia; Run'ai Quan; Huibo Hong; Tao Liu; Shougang Zhang; Xiao Xiang; Ruifang Dong

doi:10.3788/COL202321.032701

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 3, 032701(2023)

All-fiber telecom band energy-time entangled biphoton source Editors' Pick

Yuting Liu^1,2, Junjie Xing^1,2, Zhiguang Xia^1,2, Run'ai Quan¹, Huibo Hong^1,2, Tao Liu^1,2, Shougang Zhang^1,2, Xiao Xiang^1、*, and Ruifang Dong^1,2、**

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory of Time and Frequency Primary Standards, National Time Service Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710600, China

²School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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