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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR)

High-dimensional quantum gates for azimuthal modes

Daniel S. Dahl, Jacquiline Romero, Martin Plöschner, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Joel A. Carpenter

Published Jan 1, 2020• 4 citations
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Abstract

We propose several high-dimensional (d=101 and d= 59) quantum gates operating upon the azimuthal Laguerre-Gaussian modes. Gates demonstrated include X, Z, Fourier and a device for use as part of an arbitrary XN Z gate.
DOI
10.1364/cleopr.2020.p5_2

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