• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 6, 1417 (2022)
Hao Yu1、2、†, Chenzhi Yuan1、†, Ruiming Zhang1, Zichang Zhang1, Hao Li3, You Wang1、4, Guangwei Deng1, Lixing You3, Haizhi Song1、4、8, Zhiming Wang1、5、9, Guang-Can Guo1、6, and Qiang Zhou1、6、7、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
  • 2Institut national de la recherche scientifique-Centre Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications (INRS-EMT), Varennes, Quebec J3X 1S2, Canada
  • 3Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
  • 4Southwest Institute of Technical Physics, Chengdu 610041, China
  • 5Shenzhen Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
  • 6CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 7School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
  • 8e-mail: hzsong1296@163.com
  • 9e-mail: zhmwang@gmail.com
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.450731 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Hao Yu, Chenzhi Yuan, Ruiming Zhang, Zichang Zhang, Hao Li, You Wang, Guangwei Deng, Lixing You, Haizhi Song, Zhiming Wang, Guang-Can Guo, Qiang Zhou. Spectrally multiplexed indistinguishable single-photon generation at telecom-band[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(6): 1417 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Heralded single-photon source (HSPS) intrinsically suffers from the trade-off between the heralded single-photon rate and the single-photon purity. To break through this trade-off, one can apply multiplexing technology in different degrees of freedom that significantly improves the performance of the HSPS. Here, we propose a 1.5 μm chip-scale HSPS on lithium niobate on insulator by employing spectral multiplexing and active feed-forward spectral manipulating, and we demonstrate a proof-of-principle experiment with discrete fiber-based components. With continuous-wave laser pumping and three spectral modes multiplexed, our experimental results show that the spectral multiplexing improves the heralded single-photon rate by near threefold while keeping the g(2)(0) as low as 0.0006±0.0001 at a measured single-photon rate of 3.1 kHz. By measuring the joint spectral intensity, we show that the spectral multiplexing and feed-forward control effectively erase the frequency correlation of photon pairs. Moreover, we implement the Hong–Ou–Mandel interference between the spectrally multiplexed single photons and photons from an independent weak coherence source, which indicates that the multiplexed single photons are highly indistinguishable after the spectral manipulation. Our results pave a way for on-chip scalable and high-performance HSPS with spectral multiplexing toward deterministic single-photon emission.
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    ε(x,t)=|ε(x,t)|exp[i2π(f0+κ±2Vπ)tikx],(B1)

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    Ps1=ηs(1λ2)n=0[1(1ηi)n]λ2n              ηsηiλ2+ηs(2ηiηi2)λ4,(C1)

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    Ps2=ηsηa[1(1Ps1/ηs)N],(C2)

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    (1Ps1/ηs)N=k=0NCNk(Ps1/ηs)k1NPs1/ηs(C3)

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    Ps2ηaNPs1.(C4)

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    a^3=(a^1+a^2)/2,a^4=(a^1a^2)/2,(E1)

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    Pa^3(t)a^4(t)a^4(t)a^3(t)=14(a^1(t)a^1(t)a^1(t)a^1(t)+a^2(t)a^2(t)a^2(t)a^2(t)+a^1(t)a^2(t)a^2(t)a^1(t)+a^2(t)a^1(t)a^1(t)a^2(t)a^2(t)a^1(t)a^2(t)a^1(t)a^1(t)a^2(t)a^1(t)a^2(t)),(E2)

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    P14(g1(2)(0)n¯12+g2(2)(0)n¯22+2n¯1n¯22n¯1n¯2I12),(E3)

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    Vtwo-fold=22n¯1n¯2+n¯2n¯1+2.(E4)

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    Vthree-fold=2n¯2n¯1+2.(E5)

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    Hao Yu, Chenzhi Yuan, Ruiming Zhang, Zichang Zhang, Hao Li, You Wang, Guangwei Deng, Lixing You, Haizhi Song, Zhiming Wang, Guang-Can Guo, Qiang Zhou. Spectrally multiplexed indistinguishable single-photon generation at telecom-band[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(6): 1417
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