Implementation of quantum state tomography for time-bin entangled photon pairs.

Quantum state tomography (QST) is an important method for evaluating the quality of entangled photon pairs, and has been widely used to measure polarization entanglement. However, QST has not been applied to time-bin entanglement, which is a type of entanglement suitable for fiber transmission. In this paper, we clarify the way to implement QST on time-bin entangled photon pairs using a 1-bit delayed interferometer. We also provide experimental results for a demonstration of QST for time-bin entangled photon pairs generated using spontaneous four-wave mixing in a dispersion shifted fiber.

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