Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bussières, Félix
• Sangouard, Nicolas
• Afzelius, Mikael
• de Riedmatten, Hugues
• Simon, Christoph
• Tittel, Wolfgang

Titel

Prospective applications of optical quantum memories

Ist Teil von

• Journal of modern optics, 2013-10, Vol.60 (18), p.1519-1537

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• An optical quantum memory can be broadly defined as a system capable of storing a quantum state through interaction with light at optical frequencies. During the last decade, intense research was devoted to their development, mostly with the aim of fulfilling the requirements of their first two applications, namely quantum repeaters and linear-optical quantum computation. A better understanding of those requirements then motivated several different experimental approaches. Along the way, other exciting applications emerged, such as as quantum metrology, single-photon detection, tests of the foundations of quantum physics, device-independent quantum information processing and nonlinear processing of quantum information. Here we review several prospective applications of optical quantum memories, as well as recent experimental achievements pertaining to these applications. This review highlights that optical quantum memories have become essential for the development of optical quantum information processing.