Entangled coherent states are useful for various applications in quantum information processing but they are are sensitive to loss. We propose a scheme to generate distributed entangled coherent states over a lossy environment in such a way that the fidelity is independent of the losses at detectors heralding the generation of the entanglement. We compare our scheme with a previous one for the same purpose [Ourjoumtsev {\em et al.}, Nat. Phys. {\bf 5} 189 (2009)] and find parameters for which our new scheme results in superior performance.
@article{arxiv.1310.7646,
title = {Generation of distributed entangled coherent states over a lossy environment with inefficient detectors},
author = {A. P. Lund and T. C. Ralph and H. Jeong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.7646},
year = {2015}
}