Time-bin entangled photon pairs from Bragg-reflection waveguides

Huan Chen; Silke Auchter; Maximilian Prilmüller; Alexander Schlager; Thomas Kauten; Kaisa Laiho; Benedikt Pressl; Holger Suchomel; Martin Kamp; Sven Höfling; Christian Schneider; Gregor Weihs

doi:10.1063/1.5038186

Time-bin entangled photon pairs from Bragg-reflection waveguides

Huan Chen, Silke Auchter, Maximilian Prilmüller, Alexander Schlager, Thomas Kauten, Kaisa Laiho, Benedikt Pressl, Holger Suchomel, Martin Kamp, Sven Höfling, Christian Schneider, Gregor Weihs

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Abstract

Semiconductor Bragg-reflection waveguides are well-established sources of correlated photon pairs as well as promising candidates for building up integrated quantum optics devices. Here, we use such a source with optimized non-linearity for preparing time-bin entangled photons in the telecommunication wavelength range. By taking advantage of pulsed state preparation and efficient free-running single-photon detection, we drive our source at low pump powers, which results in a strong photon-pair correlation. The tomographic reconstruction of the state’s density matrix reveals that our source exhibits a high degree of entanglement. We extract a concurrence of 88.9(1.8)% and a fidelity of 94.2(9)% with respect to a Bell state.

Original language	English
Article number	080804
Number of pages	9
Journal	APL Photonics
Volume	3
Issue number	8
Early online date	1 Aug 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5038186
Publication status	Published - Aug 2018

Keywords

Time-bin entanglement
Quantum state tomography
Parametric down-conversion
Bragg-reflection waveguide

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Time-bin entangled photon pairs from Bragg-reflection waveguides

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