Transmitting more than 10 bit with a single photon
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2017-02-06
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Tentrup, Tristan B.H.
Hummel, Thomas
Wolterink, Tom A.W.
Uppu, Ravitej
Mosk, Allard. P.
Pinkse, Pepijn W.H.
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Abstract
Encoding information in the position of single photons has no known limits, given infinite resources. Using a heralded single-photon source and a spatial light modulator (SLM), we steer single photons to specific positions in a virtual grid on a large-area spatially resolving photon-counting detector (ICCD). We experimentally demonstrate selective addressing any location (symbol) in a 9072 size grid (alphabet) to achieve 10.5 bit of mutual information per detected photon between the sender and receiver. Our results can be useful for very-high-dimensional quantum information processing.
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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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Tentrup, T B H, Hummel, T, Wolterink, T A W, Uppu, R, Mosk, A P & Pinkse, P W H 2017, 'Transmitting more than 10 bit with a single photon', Optics Express, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 2826-2833. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.002826