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Realization of THz-bandwidth all-optical feedforward for ultra-fast quantum information processing

Takumi Suzuki, Taichi Yamashima, Takahiro Kashiwazaki, Rajveer Nehra, Asuka Inoue, Takeshi Umeki, Kan Takase, Warit Asavanant, Mamoru Endo, Akira Furusawa

Published Jan 1, 2025• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate an all-optical feedforward operation through the utilization of waveguide optical parametric amplifiers made of periodically-poled lithium niobate, which breaks the limitation due to electrical processing and enables THz-clock ultrafast optical quantum computation.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_fs.2025.ff105_1

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