Narrow-band photonic quantum entanglement with counterpropagating domain engineering
arXiv:1905.13395
Abstract
Photonic entanglement is a crucial resource for quantum information technologies, including quantum information processing and long-distance communication. These applications call for narrow-band entanglement sources, being compatible with the photon-electron interfaces and relax the dispersion-induced entanglement-degradation in the network mediums. However, such Giga-hertz-level bandwidth is a challenge for the photonic entanglement based on conventional spontaneous parametric down-conversion. Here we introduce a state-of-art domain-engineering technology for the counterpropagating phase matching in the polarization-entanglement generation, which results in an inherent bandwidth of 7.1 GHz at telecom wavelength. This geometry also resolves the fundamental challenge for the deterministic separation of the entangled photon pairs at frequency degeneracy, so that efficient collinear interaction can be achieved in a periodically-poled KTP waveguide and results in a spectral brightness of 3.4*10^3(GHz*mW*s)^-1. The 155 ps base-to-base Hong-Ou-Mandel dip also confirms the source bandwidth, with and a high interference visibility of 97.1%. The entanglement is measured to violate the Bell inequality by up to 18.5 standard deviations, with Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt S-parameter of 2.720. The quantum state tomography further characterizes the entanglement, with fidelity F=95.71%. These unique features establish a cornerstone for the photonic entanglement sources development and warrant broad practical quantum information applications.
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