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 language | English |
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| Article number | FF2J.4 |
| Journal | Optics InfoBase Conference Papers |
| State | Published - 2021 |
| Event | CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, CLEO: QELS 2021 - Part of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: May 9 2021 → May 14 2021 |
Funding
This manuscript has been co-authored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). 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).