about qubits

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#1 Sat, 12/11/2011 - 07:32

about qubits

Please can anyone tell me what is the difference between polarization encoded photonic qubit and spatial encoded qubit and how convertion occurs between them?
In J. L. O’Brien's paper (attached) figure 1b,he showed a method.Can anyone help me to understand this?