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Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition

Photonic Interference Beyond Two Modes

Richard C. Oliver, Miri Blau, Xingchen Ji, R. Gutiérrez-Jáuregui, Ana Asenjo-Garcı́a, Michal F. Lipson, Alexander L. Gaeta

Published Jan 1, 2023• 2 citations
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Abstract

We propose multipartite Bragg-scattering to perform all-to-all transformation among N frequency modes, realizing a bosonic N-level system. We demonstrate the N = 3 case illustrating a pathway towards scalability for frequency-domain optical quantum information systems.
DOI
10.1364/quantum.2023.qw4a.3

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