Frontiers in Optics

Measuring high-dimensional unitary transformations with undetected photons

Salini Rajeev, Mayukh Lahiri

Published Jan 1, 2025• 0 citations

Abstract

We present a novel, quantum interferometric method of measuring high-dimensional unitary transformations. In contrast to existing methods, the proposed method does not require detecting the qudit on which the unitary transformation is performed.

DOI: 10.1364/fio.2025.fth1c.2

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