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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Photonic Controlled-PHASE Gate using Dynamic Cavities and a Kerr Nonlinearity

Mikkel Heuck, Kurt A. Jacobs, Dirk Englund

Published Jan 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose a photonic CPHASE gate based on Kerr nonlinearities and tunable cavities enabling complete absorption and re-emission of photons. Storing photons about 40 times the width of their wavepackets results in 99% gate fidelity.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2019.jtu4a.4

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