• Frontiers of Optoelectronics
  • Vol. 11, Issue 2, 134 (2018)
Christian REIMER1, Yanbing ZHANG1, Piotr ROZTOCKI1, Stefania SCIARA1、2, Luis Romero1, Mehedi ISLAM1, Bennet FISCHER1, Benjamin WETZEL3, Alfonso Carmelo2, Sai Tak4, Brent LITTLE5, David MOSS6, Lucia CASPANI7, Jose AZANA1, Michael KUES1、8, and Roberto MORANDOTTI1、9、10
Author Affiliations
  • 1Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique – Centre Energie, Materiaux et Telecommunications (INRS-EMT), 1650 Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Quebec, J3X 1S2, Canada
  • 2Department of Energy, Information Engineering and Mathematical Models, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
  • 3Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
  • 4Department of Physics and Material Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, China
  • 5State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China
  • 6Centre for Micro Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia
  • 7Institute of Photonics, Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1RD, UK
  • 8School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Rankine Building, Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow G12 8LT, UK
  • 9Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
  • 10National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St Petersburg 197101, Russia
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    DOI: 10.1007/s12200-018-0814-0 Cite this Article
    Christian REIMER, Yanbing ZHANG, Piotr ROZTOCKI, Stefania SCIARA, Luis Romero, Mehedi ISLAM, Bennet FISCHER, Benjamin WETZEL, Alfonso Carmelo, Sai Tak, Brent LITTLE, David MOSS, Lucia CASPANI, Jose AZANA, Michael KUES, Roberto MORANDOTTI. On-chip frequency combs and telecommunications signal processing meet quantum optics[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2018, 11(2): 134 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Entangled optical quantum states are essential towards solving questions in fundamental physics and are at the heart of applications in quantum information science. For advancing the research and development of quantum technologies, practical access to the generation and manipulation of photon states carrying significant quantum resources is required. Recently, integrated photonics has become a leading platform for the compact and costefficient generation and processing of optical quantum states. Despite significant advances, most on-chip nonclassical light sources are still limited to basic bi-photon systems formed by two-dimensional states (i.e., qubits). An interesting approach bearing large potential is the use of the time or frequency domain to enabled the scalable onchip generation of complex states. In this manuscript, we review recent efforts in using on-chip optical frequency combs for quantum state generation and telecommunications components for their coherent control. In particular, the generation of bi- and multi-photon entangled qubit states has been demonstrated, based on a discrete time domain approach. Moreover, the on-chip generation of high-dimensional entangled states (quDits) has recently been realized, wherein the photons are created in a coherent superposition of multiple pure frequency modes. The time- and frequency-domain states formed with on-chip frequency comb sources were coherently manipulated via off-the-shelf telecommunications components. Our results suggest that microcavity-based entangled photon states and their coherent control using accessible telecommunication infrastructures can open up new venues for scalable quantum information science.
    Christian REIMER, Yanbing ZHANG, Piotr ROZTOCKI, Stefania SCIARA, Luis Romero, Mehedi ISLAM, Bennet FISCHER, Benjamin WETZEL, Alfonso Carmelo, Sai Tak, Brent LITTLE, David MOSS, Lucia CASPANI, Jose AZANA, Michael KUES, Roberto MORANDOTTI. On-chip frequency combs and telecommunications signal processing meet quantum optics[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2018, 11(2): 134
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