Postselection-Free Cavity-Enhanced Narrow-Band Orbital Angular Momentum Entangled Photon Source

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Autores principales: Wan, Pei, Zhu, Wen-Zheng, Lou, Yan-Chao, Cheng, Zi-Mo, Ren, Zhi-Cheng, Zhang, Han, Wang, Xi-Lin, Wang, Hui-Tian
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author Wan, Pei
Zhu, Wen-Zheng
Lou, Yan-Chao
Cheng, Zi-Mo
Ren, Zhi-Cheng
Zhang, Han
Wang, Xi-Lin
Wang, Hui-Tian
author_facet Wan, Pei
Zhu, Wen-Zheng
Lou, Yan-Chao
Cheng, Zi-Mo
Ren, Zhi-Cheng
Zhang, Han
Wang, Xi-Lin
Wang, Hui-Tian
contents Cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) provides a significant way to produce $\sim$10 MHz narrow-band photon pairs, which matches the bandwidth of photon for quantum memory. However, the output photon pairs from the cavity is not entangled and the postselection is required to create the entanglement outside the cavity, so the direct output of cavity-enhanced narrow-band entangled photon pairs is still an open challenge. Here we propose a solution that realizes the first postselection-free cavity-enhanced narrow-band entangled photon pairs. The entanglement is achieved in degree of freedom (DOF) of orbital angular momentum (OAM) by implementing an OAM-conservation SPDC process in an actively and precisely controlled cavity supporting degenerate high-order OAM modes. The measured linewidth for the two photons is 13.8 MHz and the measured fidelity is 0.969(3) for the directly generated OAM entangled two photons. We deterministically transfer the OAM entanglement to polarization one with almost no loss and obtain polarization entangled two photons with a fidelity of 0.948(2). Moreover, we produce narrow-band OAM-polarization hyperentangled photon pairs with a fidelity of 0.850(2) by establishing polarization entanglement with preservation of OAM entanglement, which is realized by interfering the two photons on a polarizing beam splitter (PBS) and post-selecting the events of one and only one photon in on each of the PBS port. Novel cavity may find applications in cavity-based light-matter interaction. Our results provide an efficient and promising approach to create narrow-band entangled photon sources for memory-based long-distance quantum communication and network.
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spellingShingle Postselection-Free Cavity-Enhanced Narrow-Band Orbital Angular Momentum Entangled Photon Source
Wan, Pei
Zhu, Wen-Zheng
Lou, Yan-Chao
Cheng, Zi-Mo
Ren, Zhi-Cheng
Zhang, Han
Wang, Xi-Lin
Wang, Hui-Tian
Quantum Physics
Optics
Cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) provides a significant way to produce $\sim$10 MHz narrow-band photon pairs, which matches the bandwidth of photon for quantum memory. However, the output photon pairs from the cavity is not entangled and the postselection is required to create the entanglement outside the cavity, so the direct output of cavity-enhanced narrow-band entangled photon pairs is still an open challenge. Here we propose a solution that realizes the first postselection-free cavity-enhanced narrow-band entangled photon pairs. The entanglement is achieved in degree of freedom (DOF) of orbital angular momentum (OAM) by implementing an OAM-conservation SPDC process in an actively and precisely controlled cavity supporting degenerate high-order OAM modes. The measured linewidth for the two photons is 13.8 MHz and the measured fidelity is 0.969(3) for the directly generated OAM entangled two photons. We deterministically transfer the OAM entanglement to polarization one with almost no loss and obtain polarization entangled two photons with a fidelity of 0.948(2). Moreover, we produce narrow-band OAM-polarization hyperentangled photon pairs with a fidelity of 0.850(2) by establishing polarization entanglement with preservation of OAM entanglement, which is realized by interfering the two photons on a polarizing beam splitter (PBS) and post-selecting the events of one and only one photon in on each of the PBS port. Novel cavity may find applications in cavity-based light-matter interaction. Our results provide an efficient and promising approach to create narrow-band entangled photon sources for memory-based long-distance quantum communication and network.
title Postselection-Free Cavity-Enhanced Narrow-Band Orbital Angular Momentum Entangled Photon Source
topic Quantum Physics
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05572