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On-chip frequency combs and telecommunications signal processing meet quantum optics |
Christian REIMER1, Yanbing ZHANG1, Piotr ROZTOCKI1, Stefania SCIARA1,2, Luis Romero CORTÉS1, Mehedi ISLAM1, Bennet FISCHER1, Benjamin WETZEL3, Alfonso Carmelo CINO2, Sai Tak CHU4, Brent LITTLE5, David MOSS6, Lucia CASPANI7, José AZAÑA1, Michael KUES1,8, Roberto MORANDOTTI1,9,10() |
1. Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – Centre E?nergie, Mate?riaux et Te?le?communications (INRS-EMT), 1650 Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Que?bec, J3X 1S2, Canada 2. Department of Energy, Information Engineering and Mathematical Models, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy 3. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK 4. Department of Physics and Material Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, China 5. State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China 6. Centre for Micro Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia 7. Institute of Photonics, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1RD, UK 8. School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Rankine Building, Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow G12 8LT, UK 9. Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China 10. National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St Petersburg 197101, Russia |
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Abstract Entangled optical quantum states are essential towards solving questions in fundamental physics and are at the heart of applications in quantum information science. For advancing the research and development of quantum technologies, practical access to the generation and manipulation of photon states carrying significant quantum resources is required. Recently, integrated photonics has become a leading platform for the compact and cost-efficient generation and processing of optical quantum states. Despite significant advances, most on-chip non-classical light sources are still limited to basic bi-photon systems formed by two-dimensional states (i.e., qubits). An interesting approach bearing large potential is the use of the time or frequency domain to enabled the scalable on-chip generation of complex states. In this manuscript, we review recent efforts in using on-chip optical frequency combs for quantum state generation and telecommunications components for their coherent control. In particular, the generation of bi- and multi-photon entangled qubit states has been demonstrated, based on a discrete time domain approach. Moreover, the on-chip generation of high-dimensional entangled states (quDits) has recently been realized, wherein the photons are created in a coherent superposition of multiple pure frequency modes. The time- and frequency-domain states formed with on-chip frequency comb sources were coherently manipulated via off-the-shelf telecommunications components. Our results suggest that microcavity-based entangled photon states and their coherent control using accessible telecommunication infrastructures can open up new venues for scalable quantum information science.
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Keywords
nonlinear optics
quantum optics
entangled photons
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Corresponding Author(s):
Roberto MORANDOTTI
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Just Accepted Date: 18 May 2018
Online First Date: 27 June 2018
Issue Date: 04 July 2018
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