APL Photonics (Aug 2018)

Invited Article: Time-bin entangled photon pairs from Bragg-reflection waveguides

  • H. Chen,
  • S. Auchter,
  • M. Prilmüller,
  • A. Schlager,
  • T. Kauten,
  • K. Laiho,
  • B. Pressl,
  • H. Suchomel,
  • M. Kamp,
  • S. Höfling,
  • C. Schneider,
  • G. Weihs

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5038186
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 8
pp. 080804 – 080804-9

Abstract

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Semiconductor Bragg-reflection waveguides are well-established sources of correlated photon pairs as well as promising candidates for building up integrated quantum optics devices. Here, we use such a source with optimized non-linearity for preparing time-bin entangled photons in the telecommunication wavelength range. By taking advantage of pulsed state preparation and efficient free-running single-photon detection, we drive our source at low pump powers, which results in a strong photon-pair correlation. The tomographic reconstruction of the state’s density matrix reveals that our source exhibits a high degree of entanglement. We extract a concurrence of 88.9(1.8)% and a fidelity of 94.2(9)% with respect to a Bell state.