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US 8,737,841 · App. 13/506,381 · Granted May 27, 2014

Communication method using the entangled state

Inventor: Narumi Ohkawa (Kuwana, JP)
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Patent No.
US 8,737,841
App. No.
13/506,381
Granted
May 27, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

The sender and the receiver prepare two photons in the entangled state of polarization. The first photon of the two photons is sent to the sender and the second photon of the two photons is sent to the receiver. The sender measures the first photon after the first photon pass the polarizer in which the vertical polarized photon can pass, when the sender sends the signal “1”. The sender measures the first photon after the first photon pass the polarizer in which the 45 degrees polarized photon can pass, when the sender sends the signal “0”. The receiver measures the second photon by the balanced homodyne measurement. And, the receiver knows the signal from the absolute value of the result of the balanced homodyne measurement.

Claims (7)

1. a method of communication comprising;

a step that a first photon and a second photon in an entangled state of polarization are prepared;

a step that the first photon is sent to a sender, and the second photon is sent to a receiver;

a step that the sender measures the first photon after the passage of the first photon through a polarizer in which a vertical polarized photon can pass when the sender sends a signal “1”, while the sender measures the first photon after the passage of the first photon through a polarizer in which a 45 degrees polarized photon can pass when the sender sends a signal “0”;

a step that the receiver mixes the second photon with a local oscillator light in a half beam splitter, and generates a first output light and a second output light;

a step that the receiver measures the intensity of said first output light and the intensity of said second output light, and derives a signal value which is the difference of those;

a step that the receiver obtains an absolute value of the signal value.

Continuity (1)
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