Low-Loss Polarization-Maintaining Optical Router for Photonic Quantum Information Processing
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| author | Wang, Pengfei Baek, Soyoung Edamatsu, Keiichi Kaneda, Fumihiro |
| author_facet | Wang, Pengfei Baek, Soyoung Edamatsu, Keiichi Kaneda, Fumihiro |
| contents | In photonic quantum applications, optical routers are required to handle single photons with low loss, high speed, and preservation of their quantum states. Single-photon routing with maintained polarization states is particularly important for utilizing them as qubits. Here, we demonstrate a polarization-maintaining electro-optic router compatible with single photons. Our custom electro-optic modulator is embedded in a configuration of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, where each optical component achieves polarization-maintaining operation. We observe the performance of the router with 2-4% loss, 20 dB switching extinction ratio, 2.9 ns rise time, and $>$ 99% polarization process fidelity to an ideal identity operation. |
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| spellingShingle | Low-Loss Polarization-Maintaining Optical Router for Photonic Quantum Information Processing Wang, Pengfei Baek, Soyoung Edamatsu, Keiichi Kaneda, Fumihiro Quantum Physics In photonic quantum applications, optical routers are required to handle single photons with low loss, high speed, and preservation of their quantum states. Single-photon routing with maintained polarization states is particularly important for utilizing them as qubits. Here, we demonstrate a polarization-maintaining electro-optic router compatible with single photons. Our custom electro-optic modulator is embedded in a configuration of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, where each optical component achieves polarization-maintaining operation. We observe the performance of the router with 2-4% loss, 20 dB switching extinction ratio, 2.9 ns rise time, and $>$ 99% polarization process fidelity to an ideal identity operation. |
| title | Low-Loss Polarization-Maintaining Optical Router for Photonic Quantum Information Processing |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06369 |