Picosecond synchronization of mode-locked lasers for metropolitan-scale quantum networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13773v1
• Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:19:47 GMT
• Title: Picosecond synchronization of mode-locked lasers for metropolitan-scale quantum networks
• Authors: Cory Nunn, Nijil Lal, Ivan Burenkov, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Paulina S. Kuo, Thomas Gerrits, Sergey V. Polyakov,
• Abstract summary: We demonstrate picosecond-level synchronization of two actively mode-locked Ti:Sapphire lasers via the White Rabbit Precision Time Protocol (WR-PTP)<n>WR-PTP serves as a scalable network synchronization protocol, and its performance is compared to traditional methods of local synchronization.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We demonstrate picosecond-level synchronization of two actively mode-locked Ti:Sapphire lasers via the White Rabbit Precision Time Protocol (WR-PTP), tested over 120 km of deployed optical fiber. This synchronization capability, in combination with the highly single-mode, transform-limited pulses produced by each laser, enables their use as pump lasers for indistinguishable photon sources at remote locations in a quantum network. Here, the WR-PTP serves as a scalable network synchronization protocol, and its performance is compared to traditional methods of local synchronization. We demonstrate pulse-to-pulse synchronization better than 3 ps and time deviation (TDEV) values below 4 ps for all averaging times up to 10 s. With a designed coherence time of 35 ps for single photon sources utilizing these lasers, the achievable temporal overlap corresponds to 98 % Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference visibility between independent sources.

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