Dik Bouwmeester coauthored the 1997 optical demonstration of quantum teleportation. A joint Bell-state measurement on an input photon and one member of an entangled pair conditionally transferred the input polarization quantum state to the other member. The reported experiment selected a particular detected outcome. The process consumes the shared entanglement and requires classical information about the measurement result; it does not send a usable message faster than light.[ref]
Experimental quantum teleportation by Dik Bouwmeester and others. 1997 report, Bell-state analysis and selected-outcome polarization teleportation
Portrait of Dirk Bouwmeester in 2014
. Image from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, via Wikimedia Commons; the linked file page provides photographer credits and usage information. Source.A physicist researching quantum optics and quantum information science.[ref]
Professional profile of Dirk Bouwmeester (universiteitleiden.nl). Opening paragraph; Academic staff.
