High-performance quantum entanglement generation via cascaded second-order nonlinear processes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07146v1
• Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 13:10:18 GMT
• Title: High-performance quantum entanglement generation via cascaded second-order nonlinear processes
• Authors: Zichang Zhang, Chenzhi Yuan, Si Shen, Hao Yu, Ruiming Zhang, Heqing Wang, Hao Li, You Wang, Guangwei Deng, Zhiming Wang, Lixing You, Zhen Wang, Haizhi Song, Guangcan Guo, and Qiang Zhou
• Abstract summary: We generate high-performance entangled photon-pairs in different degrees of freedom from a single piece of fiber pigtailed periodically poled LiNbO$_3$ (PPLN) waveguide. Results provide a potential candidate for quantum light source in quantum photonics.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, we demonstrate the generation of high-performance entangled photon-pairs in different degrees of freedom from a single piece of fiber pigtailed periodically poled LiNbO$_3$ (PPLN) waveguide. We utilize cascaded second-order nonlinear optical processes, i.e. second-harmonic generation (SHG) and spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC), to generate photon-pairs. Previously, the performance of the photon pairs is contaminated by Raman noise photons from the fiber pigtails. Here by integrating the PPLN waveguide with noise rejecting filters, we obtain a coincidence-to-accidental ratio (CAR) higher than 52,600 with photon-pair generation and detection rate of 52.3 kHz and 3.5 kHz, respectively. Energy-time, frequency-bin and time-bin entanglement is prepared by coherently superposing correlated two-photon states in these degrees of freedom, respectively. The energy-time entangled two-photon states achieve the maximum value of CHSH-Bell inequality of S=2.708$\pm$0.024 with a two-photon interference visibility of 95.74$\pm$0.86%. The frequency-bin entangled two-photon states achieve fidelity of 97.56$\pm$1.79% with a spatial quantum beating visibility of 96.85$\pm$2.46%. The time-bin entangled two-photon states achieve the maximum value of CHSH-Bell inequality of S=2.595$\pm$0.037 and quantum tomographic fidelity of 89.07$\pm$4.35%. Our results provide a potential candidate for quantum light source in quantum photonics.

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