High fidelity preservation of photonic hyperentanglement in a free-space optical delay line

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25609v1
• Date: Mon, 25 May 2026 09:02:14 GMT
• Title: High fidelity preservation of photonic hyperentanglement in a free-space optical delay line
• Abstract summary: Photonic hyperentanglement enables increased information capacity and enhanced functionality for quantum communication and networking.<n>The preservation of polarization and energy-time entanglement in hyperentangled photon pairs is demonstrated using a free-space optical delay line based on nested Herriott cells.
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• Abstract: Photonic hyperentanglement enables increased information capacity and enhanced functionality for quantum communication and networking. However, synchronization of hyperentangled photon pairs requires maintaining correlations simultaneously across multiple degrees of freedom (DOFs). The preservation of polarization and energy-time entanglement in hyperentangled photon pairs is demonstrated using a free-space optical delay line based on nested Herriott cells. After a delay of 647 ns, a two-photon interference visibility of 93.9(3)% is observed in the energy-time DOF, while a CHSH parameter of 2.758(5) is obtained in the polarization DOF. These results confirm that entanglement correlations in both DOFs are preserved after propagation through the delay line. They demonstrate that free-space optical delay lines are compatible with complex photonic quantum states and provide a promising route toward delay-based memories for synchronization and multiplexing in quantum networks.

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