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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Simple circuit of linear optics logic gates

T. B. Pittman, B. C. Jacobs, J. D. Franson

Published Oct 19, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

We review an experimental demonstration of a simple irreversible circuit of two probabilistic exclusive-OR (XOR) gates for single-photon qubits. We describe the operation of the individual linear-optics gates and the overall circuit in terms of two-photon and three-photon quantum interference effects. We also discuss future plans for quantum circuits using single-photon qubits from stored parametric down-conversion sources.

DOI
10.1117/12.561697

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