Remote preparation of arbitrary time-encoded single-photon ebits.
We propose and experimentally verify a novel method for the remote preparation of entangled bits (ebits) made of a single photon coherently delocalized in two well-separated temporal modes. The proposed scheme represents a remotely tunable source for tailoring arbitrary ebits, whether maximally or nonmaximally entangled, which is highly desirable for applications in quantum information technology. The remotely prepared ebit is studied by performing homodyne tomography with an ultrafast balanced homodyne detection scheme recently developed in our laboratory.
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata, CNR, Largo Enrico Fermi, 6, I-50125 Florence, Italy.
Alessandro
A
Zavatta
Milena
M
D'Angelo
Valentina
V
Parigi
Marco
M
Bellini