A Reconfigurable Quantum Local Area Network over Deployed Fiber

Muneer Alshowkan, Brian P. Williams, Philip G. Evans, Nageswara S.V. Rao, Emma M. Simmerman, Navin B. Lingaraju, Hsuan Hao Lu, Andrew M. Weiner, Nicholas A. Peters, Joseph M. Lukens

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Abstract

We demonstrate a three-node telecom quantum local area network over deployed fiber. It has eight independent entanglement channels which are dynamically reconfigurable. We successfully show entanglement demand balancing across the network and quantify its quality.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2021 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781943580910
StatePublished - May 2021
Event2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: May 9 2021May 14 2021

Publication series

Name2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2021 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period05/9/2105/14/21

Funding

We thank B. J. Lawrie, C. E. Marvinney, and Y.-Y. Pai for use of their laboratory and detectors, and S. Hicks for assistance in setting up the control plane. This work was performed in part at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, operated by UT-Battelle for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC05-00OR22725. Funding was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, through the Early Career Research Program and Transparent Optical Quantum Networks for Distributed Science Program (Field Work Proposals ERKJ353 and ERKJ355); and the National Science Foundation (1747426-DMR).

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