Frontiers in Optics

Progress toward long-distance, high-fidelity quantum communication

Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Franco N. C. Wong, Prem Kumar, M. S. Shahriar

Published Jan 1, 2003• 0 citations

Abstract

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Northwestern University is developing a system for achieving long-distance, high-fidelity teleportation and long-duration quantum storage. This paper will report recent progress that has been made in architectural studies, entanglement sources, and quantum memory.

DOI: 10.1364/fio.2003.thkk3

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