Measurement of the Bell operator and quantum teleportation.

We propose a scheme for measuring an optical version of the Bell operator, using a generalization of the Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer. Discrete-mode calculations show this to be sufficient to allow teleportation of the state of polarization of a photon with a conditional efficiency approaching 100%. The feasibility of the scheme is investigated through full broadband calculations.

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