September 2014

Conference Paper

A PERIODIC PROBABILISTIC PHOTONIC CLUSTER STATE GENERATOR

By:
Alsing, Paul; Smith Iv, Amos M; Fanto, Michael; Lott, Gordon; Tison, Christoper; Preble, Stefan
Journal Name:
Proceedings of SPIE
Page Number:
92540J
Volume:
n/a
Issue Number:
n/a
Publication Date:
September 2014
Conference Name:
Emerging Technologies in Security and Defence II; and Quantum-Physics-based Information Security III
Conference Location:
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

The research detailed in this paper describes a Periodic Cluster State Generator (PCSG) consisting of a monolithic integrated waveguide device that employs four wave mixing, an array of probabilistic photon guns, single mode sequential entanglers and an array of controllable entangling gates between modes to create arbitrary cluster states. Utilizing the PCSG one is able to produce a cluster state with nearest neighbor entanglement in the form of a linear or square lattice. Cluster state resources of this type have been proven to be able to perform universal quantum computation.