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Franson interferometry with a single pulse

Franson interferometry with a single pulse
Franson interferometry with a single pulse

In classical optics, interference occurs between two optical fields when they are indistinguishable from one another. The same holds true in quantum optics, where a particular experiment, the Franson interferometer, involves the interference of a photon pair with a time-delayed version of itself. The canonical version of this interferometer requires that the time delay be much shorter than the coherence length of the pump used to generate the photon pair, so as to guarantee indistinguishability. However, when this time delay is comparable to the coherence length, conventional wisdom suggests that interference visibility degrades significantly. In this work, though, we show that the interference visibility can be restored through judicious temporal post-selection. Utilizing correlated photon pairs generated by a pump whose pulsewidth (460 ps) is shorter than the interferometer’s time delay (500 ps), we are able to observe a fringe visibility of 97.4±4.3%. We believe this new method can be used for the encoding of high-dimensional quantum information in the temporal domain.

nonlinear optics, optical fibers, quantum interference, quantum optics
2095-2759
148-154
Zhu, Eric Y.
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Corbari, Costantino
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Gladyshev, Alexey V.
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Kazansky, Peter G.
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Qian, Li
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Zhu, Eric Y.
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Gladyshev, Alexey V.
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Kazansky, Peter G.
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Qian, Li
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Zhu, Eric Y., Corbari, Costantino, Gladyshev, Alexey V., Kazansky, Peter G. and Qian, Li (2018) Franson interferometry with a single pulse. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 11 (2), 148-154. (doi:10.1007/s12200-018-0809-x).

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Abstract

In classical optics, interference occurs between two optical fields when they are indistinguishable from one another. The same holds true in quantum optics, where a particular experiment, the Franson interferometer, involves the interference of a photon pair with a time-delayed version of itself. The canonical version of this interferometer requires that the time delay be much shorter than the coherence length of the pump used to generate the photon pair, so as to guarantee indistinguishability. However, when this time delay is comparable to the coherence length, conventional wisdom suggests that interference visibility degrades significantly. In this work, though, we show that the interference visibility can be restored through judicious temporal post-selection. Utilizing correlated photon pairs generated by a pump whose pulsewidth (460 ps) is shorter than the interferometer’s time delay (500 ps), we are able to observe a fringe visibility of 97.4±4.3%. We believe this new method can be used for the encoding of high-dimensional quantum information in the temporal domain.

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Accepted/In Press date: 7 May 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 27 June 2018
Published date: June 2018
Keywords: nonlinear optics, optical fibers, quantum interference, quantum optics

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Local EPrints ID: 424808
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/424808
ISSN: 2095-2759
PURE UUID: 69a7ee38-477c-4684-9b2a-e4d1aecb5781

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Date deposited: 05 Oct 2018 11:47
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 21:02

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Author: Eric Y. Zhu
Author: Costantino Corbari
Author: Alexey V. Gladyshev
Author: Li Qian

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