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Optimizing the quantum interference between single photons and local oscillator with photon correlations

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12111v1
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 14:19:51 GMT
Title: Optimizing the quantum interference between single photons and local oscillator with photon correlations
Authors: Hubert Lam, Juan R. Álvarez, Petr Steindl, Ilse Maillette de Buy Wenniger, Stephen Wein, Anton Pishchagin, Thi Huong Au, Sebastien Boissier, Aristide Lemaître, Wolfgang Löffler, Nadia Belabas, Dario A. Fioretto, Pascale Senellart,
Abstract summary: We report on two homodyne photon-correlation techniques enabling the precise measurement of the overlap between a single photon generated by a quantum dot-cavity device and pulsed laser light.<n>The different statistics of interfering fields lead to specific signatures of the quantum interference on the photon correlations at the output of the interfering beam splitter.<n>We compare the behavior of maximized overlap, measuring either the Hong-Ou-Mandel visibility between both outputs or the photon bunching at a single output.
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Abstract: The quantum interference between a coherent state and a single photon is an important tool in continuous variable optical quantum technologies to characterize and engineer non-Gaussian quantum states. Semiconductor quantum dots, which have recently emerged as a key platform for efficient single-photon generation, could become interesting assets in this context. An essential parameter for interfering single photons and classical fields is the mean wavepacket overlap between both fields. Here, we report on two homodyne photon-correlation techniques enabling the precise measurement of the overlap between a single photon generated by a quantum dot-cavity device and pulsed laser light. The different statistics of interfering fields lead to specific signatures of the quantum interference on the photon correlations at the output of the interfering beam splitter. We compare the behavior of maximized overlap, measuring either the Hong-Ou-Mandel visibility between both outputs or the photon bunching at a single output. Through careful tailoring of the laser light in various degrees of freedom, we maximize the overlap to $76\,\%$, with limitations primarily due to mismatched spectral and temporal profiles and low-frequency charge noise in the single-photon source.

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