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Title: Heralding efficiency and correlated-mode coupling of near-IR fiber-coupled photon pairs

Abstract

We report on a systematic experimental study of heralding efficiency and generation rate of telecom-band infrared photon pairs generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion and coupled to single mode optical fibers. We define the correlated-mode coupling efficiency--an inherent source efficiency--and explain its relation to heralding efficiency. For our experiment, we developed a reconfigurable computer controlled pump-beam and collection-mode optical apparatus which we used to measure the generation rate and correlated-mode coupling efficiency. The use of low-noise, high-efficiency superconducting-nanowire single-photon-detectors in this setup allowed us to explore focus configurations with low overall photon flux. The measured data agree well with theory and we demonstrated a correlated-mode coupling efficiency of 97%±2%, which is the highest efficiency yet achieved for this type of system. These results confirm theoretical treatments and demonstrate that very high overall heralding efficiencies can, in principle, be achieved in quantum optical systems. We expect that these results and techniques will be widely incorporated into future systems that require, or benefit from, a high heralding efficiency.

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 [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [4];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [3]
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  1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Lexington, MA (United States). Lincoln Laboratory; Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Research Laboratory of Electronics
  2. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Lexington, MA (United States). Lincoln Laboratory
  3. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Research Laboratory of Electronics
  4. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
OSTI Identifier:
1163588
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 90; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1050-2947
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; parametric down-conversion; entanglement; photon; fiber

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Dixon, P. Ben, Rosenberg, Danna, Stelmakh, Veronika, Grein, Matthew E., Bennink, Ryan S., Dauler, Eric A., Kerman, Andrew J., Molnar, Richard J., and Wong, Franco N. C. Heralding efficiency and correlated-mode coupling of near-IR fiber-coupled photon pairs. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.90.043804.
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Dixon, P. Ben, Rosenberg, Danna, Stelmakh, Veronika, Grein, Matthew E., Bennink, Ryan S., Dauler, Eric A., Kerman, Andrew J., Molnar, Richard J., & Wong, Franco N. C. Heralding efficiency and correlated-mode coupling of near-IR fiber-coupled photon pairs. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.043804
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Dixon, P. Ben, Rosenberg, Danna, Stelmakh, Veronika, Grein, Matthew E., Bennink, Ryan S., Dauler, Eric A., Kerman, Andrew J., Molnar, Richard J., and Wong, Franco N. C. Mon . "Heralding efficiency and correlated-mode coupling of near-IR fiber-coupled photon pairs". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.043804. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1163588.
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@article{osti_1163588,
title = {Heralding efficiency and correlated-mode coupling of near-IR fiber-coupled photon pairs},
author = {Dixon, P. Ben and Rosenberg, Danna and Stelmakh, Veronika and Grein, Matthew E. and Bennink, Ryan S. and Dauler, Eric A. and Kerman, Andrew J. and Molnar, Richard J. and Wong, Franco N. C.},
abstractNote = {We report on a systematic experimental study of heralding efficiency and generation rate of telecom-band infrared photon pairs generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion and coupled to single mode optical fibers. We define the correlated-mode coupling efficiency--an inherent source efficiency--and explain its relation to heralding efficiency. For our experiment, we developed a reconfigurable computer controlled pump-beam and collection-mode optical apparatus which we used to measure the generation rate and correlated-mode coupling efficiency. The use of low-noise, high-efficiency superconducting-nanowire single-photon-detectors in this setup allowed us to explore focus configurations with low overall photon flux. The measured data agree well with theory and we demonstrated a correlated-mode coupling efficiency of 97%±2%, which is the highest efficiency yet achieved for this type of system. These results confirm theoretical treatments and demonstrate that very high overall heralding efficiencies can, in principle, be achieved in quantum optical systems. We expect that these results and techniques will be widely incorporated into future systems that require, or benefit from, a high heralding efficiency.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.90.043804},
journal = {Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics},
number = 4,
volume = 90,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Mon Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}
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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: Correlated-mode coupling behavior and relative photon pair emission rate as a function of collection mode focal parameter ξa for a range of pump beam focal parameters ξp are shown. Plot (a) shows the behavior for ξp = 2.84, all photon pair rates in this figure are normalized tomore » the maximum pair rate achieved for this focusing configuration. Plot (b) shows the behavior for ξp = 0.284, and plot (c) shows the behavior for ξp = 0.0284.« less
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