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Towards All-optical Cavity-based Memory for Non-Gaussian Quantum State Engineering

Fumiya Hanamura, Kan Takase, Kazuki Hirota, Rajveer Nehra, Florian Lang, Shigehito Miki, Hirotaka Terai, Masahiro Yabuno, Fumihiro China, Takahiro Kahiwazaki, Asuka Inoue, Takeshi Umeki, Warit Asavanant, Mamoru Endo, Jun–ichi Yoshikawa, Akira Furusawa

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present our experimental results on all-optical memory to store and manipulate quantum states, and propose resource-efficient time-domain-multiplexed state engineering using the memory. This paves a path to scalable quantum information processors.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_fs.2024.ff1h.2

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