High-quality photonic entanglement based on a silicon chip

Abstract

The fruitful association of quantum and integrated photonics holds the promise to produce, manipulate, and detect quantum states of light using compact and scalable systems. Integrating all the building-blocks necessary to produce high-quality photonic entanglement in the telecom wavelength range out of a single chip remains a major challenge, mainly due to the limited performance of on-chip light rejection filters. We report a stand-alone, telecom-compliant, device that integrates, on a single substrate, a nonlinear photon-pair generator and a passive pump rejection filter. Using standard channel-grid fiber demultiplexers, we demonstrate the first entanglement quantification of such a integrated circuit, showing the highest raw quantum interference visibility for energy-time entangled photons over two telecom-wavelength bands. Genuinely pure maximally entangled states can therefore be generated thanks to the high-level of noise suppression obtained with the pump filter. These results will certainly further promote the development of more advanced and scalable photonic-integrated quantum systems compliant with telecommunication standards.

arXiv comment11 pages, 6 figures

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