Efficient sorting of quantum-optical wave packets by temporal-mode interferometry
arXiv:1401.6700 · doi:10.1364/OL.39.002924
Abstract
Long-distance quantum communication relies on storing and retrieving photonic qubits in orthogonal field modes. The available degrees of freedom for photons are polarization, spatial-mode profile, and temporal/spectral profile. To date, methods exist for decomposing, manipulating, and analyzing photons into orthogonal polarization modes and spatial modes. Here we propose and theoretically verify the first highly efficient method to carry out analogous operations for temporally and spectrally overlapping, but field-orthogonal, temporal modes. The method relies on cascaded nonlinear-optical quantum frequency conversion.
4 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Optics Letters on 26th January, 2014
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