Adam Miranowicz 2005 J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 7 142 doi:10.1088/1464-4266/7/5/004
Adam Miranowicz
Show affiliationsThe quantum scissors device of Pegg et al (1998 Phys. Rev. Lett. 81 1604) enables truncation of the Fock-state expansion of an input optical field to qubit and qutrit (three-dimensional) states only. Here, a generalized scissors device is proposed using an eight-port optical interferometer. Upon post-selection based on photon counting results, the interferometer implements generation and teleportation of qudit (d-dimensional) states by truncation of an input field at the (d−1)th term of its Fock-state expansion up to d = 6. Examples of selective truncations, which can be interpreted as a Fock-state filtering and hole burning in the Fock space of an input optical field, are discussed. Deterioration of the truncation due to imperfect photon counting is discussed including inefficiency, dark counts and realistic photon-number resolutions of photodetectors.
42.50.Dv Quantum state engineering and measurements
03.67.Lx Quantum computation architectures and implementations
42.50.St Nonclassical interferometry, subwavelength lithography
Issue 5 (May 2005)
Received 23 December 2004, accepted for publication 4 March 2005
Published 15 April 2005
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