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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Experimental quantum encoder for single-photon qubits

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

Published Jan 1, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

We describe an experiment in which linear optics, post-selection, and GHZ-like three-photon interference effects were used to probabilistically encode a single-photon qubit into the logical state of two photons.
DOI
10.1364/iqec.2004.imc5

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