Spectral control of nonclassical light pulses using an integrated thin-film lithium niobate modulator
Abstract
Manipulating the frequency and bandwidth of nonclassical light is essential for implementing frequency-encoded/multiplexed quantum computation, communication, and networking protocols, and for bridging spectral mismatch among various quantum systems. However, quantum spectral control requires a strong nonlinearity mediated by light, microwave, or acoustics, which is challenging to realize with high efficiency, low noise, and on an integrated chip. Here, we demonstrate both frequency shifting and bandwidth compression of heralded single-photon pulses using an integrated thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) phase modulator. We achieve record-high electro-optic frequency shearing of telecom single photons over terahertz range (±641 GHz or ±5.2 nm), enabling high visibility quantum interference between frequency-nondegenerate photon pairs. We further operate the modulator as a time lens and demonstrate over eighteen-fold (6.55 nm to 0.35 nm) bandwidth compression of single photons. Our results showcase the viability and promise of on-chip quantum spectral control for scalable photonic quantum information processing.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Nov 17, 2022
- Source ID
- 10.1038/s41377-022-01029-7
Entities
People
- C. J. Xin
- Changchen Chen
- Christian Reimer
- Di Zhu
- Franco N. C. Wong
- Linbo Shao
- Lingyan He
- Marko Loncar
- Matthew Yeh
- Mengjie Yu
- Mian Zhang
- Neil Sinclair
- Soumya Ghosh
- Yaowen Hu
Organizations
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research
- Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate
- Army Research Office
- National Science Foundation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
- United States Department of Defense
- United States Department of Energy