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Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 23, Issue 8, 082701(2025)

Broadband energy-time entangled photon-pair source based on a fiber-pigtailed PPLN waveguide [Invited] Editors' Pick

Peng Wu1,2, Yunru Fan1,2、*, Hao Yu1, Guangwei Deng1,2, You Wang1,3, Haizhi Song1,3, Hao Li4, Lixing You4, Guangcan Guo1,2,5,6, and Qiang Zhou1,2,5,6、**
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  • 1Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Quantum Physics and Photonic Quantum Information, Ministry of Education, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
  • 3Southwest Institute of Technical Physics, Chengdu 610041, China
  • 4National Key Laboratory of Materials for Integrated Circuits, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
  • 5Center for Quantum Internet, Tianfu Jiangxi Laboratory, Chengdu 641419, China
  • 6CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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    Peng Wu, Yunru Fan, Hao Yu, Guangwei Deng, You Wang, Haizhi Song, Hao Li, Lixing You, Guangcan Guo, Qiang Zhou, "Broadband energy-time entangled photon-pair source based on a fiber-pigtailed PPLN waveguide [Invited]," Chin. Opt. Lett. 23, 082701 (2025)

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    Category: Quantum Optics and Quantum Information

    Received: Feb. 19, 2025

    Accepted: Apr. 3, 2025

    Published Online: Jul. 15, 2025

    The Author Email: Yunru Fan (yunrufan@uestc.edu.cn), Qiang Zhou (zhouqiang@uestc.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202523.082701

    CSTR:32184.14.COL202523.082701

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