The controlled 'catch and release' of individual quantum-information-carrying photons is an important ingredient for achieving scalable quantum networking. Recently, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics succeeded in this task in two separate systems.
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Moehring, D., Blinov, B. Exploring remote entanglement. Nature Photon 5, 454–456 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.165
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