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  • Editor: C. Martijn de Sterke
  • Vol. 19, Iss. 2 — Jan. 17, 2011
  • pp: 1360–1366

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Transporting continuous quantum variables of individual light pulses

Yujiro Eto, Yun Zhang, and Takuya Hirano  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 1360-1366 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.001360


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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate transporting continuous quantum variables of individual light pulses at telecommunication wavelengths by using continuous-variable Bell measurements and post-processing displacement techniques. Time-domain pulsed homodyne detectors are used in the Bell measurements and the quantum variables of input light are transported pulse-by-pulse. Fidelity of F = 0.57 ± 0.03 is experimentally achieved with the aid of entanglement, which is higher than the bound (Fc = 0.5) of the classical case in the absence of entanglement.

© 2011 Optical Society of America

OCIS Codes
(270.6570) Quantum optics : Squeezed states
(270.5565) Quantum optics : Quantum communications

ToC Category:
Quantum Optics

History
Original Manuscript: October 15, 2010
Revised Manuscript: December 19, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: January 11, 2011
Published: January 12, 2011

Citation
Yujiro Eto, Yun Zhang, and Takuya Hirano, "Transporting continuous quantum variables of individual light pulses," Opt. Express 19, 1360-1366 (2011)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-19-2-1360


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