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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Measurement-free Kerr-based cubic phase gate with Gaussian operations

Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Tatsuhiro Onodera, Edwin Ng, Logan G. Wright, Peter L. McMahon, Hideo Mabuchi

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose a measurement-free construction of a cubic phase gate based on a Kerr nonlinearity and Gaussian transformations. Experimental feasibility is discussed for pulsed nanophotonic waveguides where quantum states are encoded into quantum solitons.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2020.fm2c.4

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