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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Quantum Information on Nonlinearly Coupled Optical Modes

Stefan Krastanov, Mikkel Heuck, Kurt A. Jacobs, Prineha Narang, Dirk Englund

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

Pursuing room-temperature quantum hardware, we discuss multi-mode optical cavities with nonlinear couplings and focus on material and fabrication requirements for such devices. We demonstrate their use for a number of quantum communication and computation tasks.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2020.jtu2c.1

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