Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Implementation of quantum and classical discrete fractional Fourier transforms

  • Steffen Weimann,
  • Armando Perez-Leija,
  • Maxime Lebugle,
  • Robert Keil,
  • Malte Tichy,
  • Markus Gräfe,
  • René Heilmann,
  • Stefan Nolte,
  • Hector Moya-Cessa,
  • Gregor Weihs,
  • Demetrios N. Christodoulides,
  • Alexander Szameit

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11027
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Fourier analysis has become a standard tool in contemporary science. Here, Weimann et al. report classical and quantum optical realizations of the discrete fractional Fourier transform, a generalization of the Fourier transform, with potential applications in integrated quantum computation.