Characterization of teleportation in optics

Summary form only given. Quantum teleportation is a technique via which the quantum state of a system can be reconstructed at a distant station through the direct transmission of only classical information. This remarkable effect is made possible by the sharing of a nonlocally entangled state by the sender and receiver, constituting an indirect quantum channel. Teleportation has applications in quantum computing and general quantum information manipulation. Teleportation of optical fields holds great promise due to the power of the required optical tools and the maturity of relevant optical communications technology. Recently, a high efficiency, experimental demonstration of the continuous variable teleportation of a single mode, coherent optical field has been made.