Title :
Arbitrary photonic wave plate operations on-chip: Realizing Hadamard and Pauli-X gates for polarization encoded qubits
Author :
Heilmann, R. ; Grafe, M. ; Nolte, S. ; Szameit, A.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Appl. Phys., Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Jena, Germany
Abstract :
We present arbitrary wave plate operations on-chip based on the reorientation of the waveguide´s optical axis caused by additional stress fields. A successful implementation of Hadamard and Pauli-X gates for quantum light is shown.
Keywords :
optical logic; optical retarders; optical waveguides; piezo-optical effects; quantum gates; quantum optics; Hadamard gates; Pauli-X gates; arbitrary photonic wave plate operation on-chip; polarization encoded qubits; quantum light; stress fields; waveguide optical axis reorientation; Logic gates; Nonlinear optics; Optical polarization; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Stress; Waveguide lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
