Indistinguishable telecom band photons from a single erbium ion in the solid state

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03564v1
• Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 18:29:53 GMT
• Title: Indistinguishable telecom band photons from a single erbium ion in the solid state
• Authors: Salim Ourari, {\L}ukasz Dusanowski, Sebastian P. Horvath, Mehmet T. Uysal, Christopher M. Phenicie, Paul Stevenson, Mouktik Raha, Songtao Chen, Robert J. Cava, Nathalie P. de Leon, and Jeff D. Thompson
• Abstract summary: We implant Er$3+$ into CaWO$_4$, a material that combines a non-polar site symmetry, low decoherence from nuclear spins, and is free of background rare earth ions. We observe single-scan optical linewidths of 150 kHz and long-term spectral diffusion of 63 kHz, both close to the Purcell-enhanced radiative linewidth of 21 kHz. This represents a significant step towards the construction of telecom-band quantum repeater networks with single Er$3+$ ions.
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• Abstract: Atomic defects in the solid state are a key component of quantum repeater networks for long-distance quantum communication. Recently, there has been significant interest in rare earth ions, in particular Er$^{3+}$ for its telecom-band optical transition, but their application has been hampered by optical spectral diffusion precluding indistinguishable single photon generation. In this work we implant Er$^{3+}$ into CaWO$_4$, a material that combines a non-polar site symmetry, low decoherence from nuclear spins, and is free of background rare earth ions, to realize significantly reduced optical spectral diffusion. For shallow implanted ions coupled to nanophotonic cavities with large Purcell factor, we observe single-scan optical linewidths of 150 kHz and long-term spectral diffusion of 63 kHz, both close to the Purcell-enhanced radiative linewidth of 21 kHz. This enables the observation of Hong-Ou-Mandel interference between successively emitted photons with high visibility, measured after a 36 km delay line. We also observe spin relaxation times $T_1$ = 3.7 s and $T_2$ > 200 $\mu$s, with the latter limited by paramagnetic impurities in the crystal instead of nuclear spins. This represents a significant step towards the construction of telecom-band quantum repeater networks with single Er$^{3+}$ ions.

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