Nonlocal PMD compensation in the transmission of non-stationary streams of polarization entangled photons

TL;DR

This paper investigates the feasibility of nonlocal polarization mode dispersion compensation in fiber-optic channels for entangled photons, considering pulsed pump sources, to improve quantum communication reliability.

Contribution

It introduces a method to evaluate nonlocal PMD compensation effectiveness with pulsed entangled photon sources, advancing quantum fiber-optic communication techniques.

Findings

Nonlocal PMD compensation can significantly improve entanglement distribution.

Pulsed pump sources influence the effectiveness of compensation.

The study provides a quantitative assessment of nonlocal PMD correction methods.

Abstract

We study the feasibility of nonlocally compensating for polarization mode dispersion (PMD), when polarization entangled photons are distributed in fiber-optic channels.We quantify the effectiveness of nonlocal compensation while taking into account the possibility that entanglement is generated through the use of a pulsed optical pump signal.