A high-speed tunable beam splitter for feed-forward photonic quantum information processing

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 22723-22730

  Ma, Xiao Song ^a,b   Zotter, Stefan ^a,b   Tetik, Nuray ^a   Qarry, Angie ^a   Jennewein, Thomas ^a,c   Zeilinger, Anton ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b University of Vienna Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; LIGHT MODULATORS; LOGIC GATES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; PRISMS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

ELECTROOPTICAL MODULATORS; FEED-FORWARD; HIGH-SPEED; MAXIMAL REPETITIONS; POLARIZATION-INDEPENDENT; QUANTUM GATES; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-QUBIT GATES; SPLITTING RATIO; SWITCHING TIME; TWO PHOTON; TWO-QUBIT GATES;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 80755180937     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022723     Document Type: Article

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