# Optical Quantum Computers - Ep 5 - Rays and Waves

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Podcast: [Rays and Waves](https://stenobird.com/podcast/rays-and-waves-7177942)
Published: 2025-05-06T07:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

In this episode of Rays and Waves we speak about Linear Optical Quantum Computers. There has been lots of talk about quantum computers in the science media lately. Both companies and academic labs are hard at work to build the sought-after fault-tolerant quantum computer. As it turns out, one approach to building quantum computers is with optics. Join us as we explore the pros and cons with this light-based approach to quantum computers. If you like the show, tell your friends and colleagues about it! And like, subscribe, and all that! If you want to get in touch, shoot us an email on rays.and.waves.podcast@gmail.com Good resources to learn more: - Original KLM paper: Knill, Emanuel, Raymond Laflamme, and Gerald J. Milburn. "A scheme for efficient quantum computation with linear optics." nature 409.6816 (2001): 46-52. - Good review: Slussarenko, Sergei, and Geoff J. Pryde. "Photonic quantum information processing: A concise review." Applied physics reviews 6.4 (2019). - Lecture notes: Myers, C. R., and R. Laflamme. "Linear optics quantum computation: an overview." Quantum Computers, Algorithms and Chaos (2006): 45-93. Game: Quantum Odyssey (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2802710/Quantum_Odyssey/) Intro music is Good Vibe by Twisterium. Thanks for making sweet music!

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