Low noise quantum frequency conversion of photons from a trapped barium ion to the telecom O-band

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01205v1
• Date: Tue, 2 May 2023 05:08:10 GMT
• Title: Low noise quantum frequency conversion of photons from a trapped barium ion to the telecom O-band
• Authors: Uday Saha, James D. Siverns, John Hannegan, Qudsia Quraishi and Edo Waks
• Abstract summary: Trapped ions are one of the leading candidates for scalable and long-distance quantum networks. One method for creating ion-photon entanglement is to exploit optically transitions from the P_(1/2) to S_(1/2) levels. We use a two-stage quantum frequency conversion scheme to achieve a frequency shift of 375.4 THz between the input visible photon and the output telecom photon.
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• Abstract: Trapped ions are one of the leading candidates for scalable and long-distance quantum networks because of their long qubit coherence time, high fidelity single- and two-qubit gates, and their ability to generate photons entangled with the qubit state of the ion. One method for creating ion-photon entanglement is to exploit optically transitions from the P_(1/2) to S_(1/2) levels, which naturally emit spin-photon entangled states. But these optical transitions typically lie in the ultra-violet and visible wavelength regimes. These wavelengths exhibit significant fiber-optic propagation loss, thereby limiting the transfer of quantum information to tens of meters. Quantum frequency conversion is essential to convert these photons to telecom wavelengths so that they can propagate over long distances in fiber-based networks, as well as for compatibility with the vast number of telecom-based opto-electronic components. Here, we generate O-band telecom photons via a low noise quantum frequency conversion scheme from photons emitted from the P_(1/2) to S_(1/2) dipole transition of a trapped barium ion. We use a two-stage quantum frequency conversion scheme to achieve a frequency shift of 375.4 THz between the input visible photon and the output telecom photon achieving a conversion efficiency of 11%. We attain a signal-to-background ratio of over 100 for the converted O-band telecom photon with background noise less than 15 counts/sec. These results are an important step toward achieving trapped ion quantum networks over long distances for distributed quantum computing and quantum communication.

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