Photon counting schemes and performance of non-deterministic nonlinear gates in linear optics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4821, Issue , 2002, Pages 427-435

  Bartlett, S D ^a   Diamanti, E ^b   Sanders, B C ^a,b   Yamamoto, Y ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonclassical light; Photodetector models; Quantum computation

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; MIRRORS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHASE SHIFTERS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RADIATION COUNTERS;

DOUBLE DETECTOR ARRAY; LINEAR OPTICAL QUANTUM COMPUTING; LINEAR OPTICS; NONDETERMINISTIC NONLINEAR GATES; PHOTON COUNTING; QUANTUM TELEPORTATION; VISIBLE LIGHT PHOTON COUNTER;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0036989589     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.451332     Document Type: Conference Paper

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