Title :
Heralded noiseless amplification of a photon polarization qubit
Author :
Kocsis, Sacha ; Guoyong Xiang ; Ralph, Timothy C. ; Pryde, Geoff J.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Quantum Comput. & Commun. Technol. (Australian Res. Council), Griffith Univ., Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Abstract :
We demonstrate heralded loss reduction of a qubit channel, using a two-mode coherent noiseless amplifier operating on the polarization of a single photon. We increase transmission fidelity by up to a factor of five.
Keywords :
light coherence; light polarisation; light transmission; optical communication; optical information processing; optical losses; quantum communication; quantum optics; heralded loss reduction; heralded noiseless amplification; optical transmission fidelity; photon polarization qubit channel; two-mode coherent noiseless amplifier; Optical amplifiers; Optical polarization; Photonics; Polarization; Quantum computing; Quantum mechanics; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
