Abstract
Optical quantum computing (QC) increasingly uses integrated optics based experiments which permit circuit compactness and phase stability [1]. However, despite the rapid adaptations of integrated waveguide devices for quantum photonics, initial gate demonstrations operate in post-selection, thus not allowing scaling of a quantum circuit beyond the depth of a single gate. Recently, a number of quantum circuits have been demonstrated using the femtosecond laser direct write (FLDW) technique [2]. This technique induces refractive index change in glass substrates which can form three-dimensional waveguide devices. Here we demonstrate a potentially scalable waveguide gate for QC, a controlled-phase gate or Knill gate, produced using the FLDW technique. This gate produces a phase shift on a target qubit conditional on the state of a control qubit, as shown in Fig. 1(a). It requires four photons for operation, two of which act as the target and control path-encoded qubits and two ancillas which herald the successful operation of the circuit [3].
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