Towards high quality photonic polarization entanglement distribution at 1.3-µm telecom wavelength

Author

Zhong, Tian ; Hu, Xiaolong ; Wong, Franco N C ; Herder, Charles ; Najafi, Faraz ; Berggren, Karl K. ; Roberts, Tony D. ; Battle, Philip

Author_Institution

Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Polarization-entangled photons at 1.3 mum from a fiber-coupled PPKTP waveguide are analyzed using a remotely located superconducting nanowire single-photon detector, yielding 97.5% quantum-interference visibility and 0.8 coincidence/s at 96 muW pump power.

Keywords

nanowires; optical fibre communication; potassium compounds; quantum communication; quantum entanglement; superconducting photodetectors; KTP; fiber-coupled PPKTP waveguide; high quality photonic polarization entanglement distribution; polarization entangled photon; power 96 muW; quantum interference visibility; single photon detector; superconducting nanowire; telecom wavelength; wavelength 1.3 mum; Detectors; Fluorescence; Optical fiber polarization; Optical noise; Optical waveguides; Photonics Society; SQUIDs; Superconducting device noise; Superconducting photodetectors; Telecommunications; (040.5160) Photodetectors; (270.5290) Photon Statistics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5224550