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Entangled photons on a chip

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Using photonic chips to control single photons in waveguides is a promising route to technologies based on the photons'quantum properties. The ability to measure entanglement on such chips is a key step in that direction.

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Figure 1: Measuring entanglement on a chip1.

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  1. H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mirko Lobino and Jeremy L. O'Brien are at the Centre for Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UB, UK. jeremy.obrien@bristol.ac.uk,

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