Quantum Storage of Frequency-Multiplexed Heralded Single Photons

We report on the quantum storage of a heralded frequency-multiplexed single photon in an integrated laser-written rare-earth doped waveguide. The single photon contains 15 discrete frequency modes separated by 261 MHz and spaning across 4 GHz. It is obtained from a non-degenerate photon pair created...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2019-02
Main Authors: Seri, Alessandro, Lago-Rivera, Dario, Lenhard, Andreas, Corrielli, Giacomo, Osellame, Roberto, Mazzera, Margherita, de Riedmatten, Hugues
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Frequency spectrum
Multiplexing
Photons
Praseodymium
Quantum theory
Rare earth elements
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Summary:We report on the quantum storage of a heralded frequency-multiplexed single photon in an integrated laser-written rare-earth doped waveguide. The single photon contains 15 discrete frequency modes separated by 261 MHz and spaning across 4 GHz. It is obtained from a non-degenerate photon pair created via cavity-enhanced spontaneous down conversion, where the heralding photon is at telecom wavelength and the heralded photon is at 606 nm. The frequency-multimode photon is stored in a praseodymium-doped waveguide using the atomic frequency comb (AFC) scheme, by creating multiple combs within the inhomogeneous broadening of the crystal. Thanks to the intrinsic temporal multimodality of the AFC scheme, each spectral bin includes 9 temporal modes, such that the total number of stored modes is about 130. We demonstrate that the storage preserves the non-classical properties of the single photon, and its normalized frequency spectrum.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1902.06657