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Heralded Noiseless Amplification of a Photon Polarization Qubit

Sacha Kocsis, Guo‐Yong Xiang, Timothy C. Ralph, Geoff J. Pryde

Published Jan 1, 2013• 8 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate heralded loss reduction of a qubit channel, using a two-mode coherent noiseless amplifier operating on the polarization of a single photon. We increase transmission fidelity by up to a factor of five.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2013.qtu1c.7

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