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Science. 2016 Mar 11;351(6278):1176-80. doi: 10.1126/science.aad8532.

Generation of multiphoton entangled quantum states by means of integrated frequency combs.

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Christian Reimer, Michael Kues, Piotr Roztocki, Benjamin Wetzel, Fabio Grazioso, Brent E Little, Sai T Chu, Tudor Johnston, Yaron Bromberg, Lucia Caspani, David J Moss, Roberto Morandotti

Affiliations

  1. Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, 1650 Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1S2, Canada.
  2. Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, 1650 Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1S2, Canada. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RH, UK.
  3. State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Xi'an, China.
  4. Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, China.
  5. Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
  6. School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, UK. State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Xi'an, China.
  7. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia.
  8. Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, 1650 Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1S2, Canada. Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China.

PMID: 26965623 DOI: 10.1126/science.aad8532

Abstract

Complex optical photon states with entanglement shared among several modes are critical to improving our fundamental understanding of quantum mechanics and have applications for quantum information processing, imaging, and microscopy. We demonstrate that optical integrated Kerr frequency combs can be used to generate several bi- and multiphoton entangled qubits, with direct applications for quantum communication and computation. Our method is compatible with contemporary fiber and quantum memory infrastructures and with chip-scale semiconductor technology, enabling compact, low-cost, and scalable implementations. The exploitation of integrated Kerr frequency combs, with their ability to generate multiple, customizable, and complex quantum states, can provide a scalable, practical, and compact platform for quantum technologies.

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