Interface between path and orbital angular momentum entanglement for high-dimensional photonic quantum information

Robert Fickler, Radek Lapkiewicz, Marcus Huber, Martin P. J. Lavery, Miles J. Padgett, Anton Zeilinger

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Abstrakti

Photonics has become a mature field of quantum information science, where integrated optical circuits offer a way to scale the complexity of the set-up as well as the dimensionality of the quantum state. On photonic chips, paths are the natural way to encode information. To distribute those high-dimensional quantum states over large distances, transverse spatial modes, like orbital angular momentum possessing Laguerre Gauss modes, are favourable as flying information carriers. Here we demonstrate a quantum interface between these two vibrant photonic fields. We create three-dimensional path entanglement between two photons in a nonlinear crystal and use a mode sorter as the quantum interface to transfer the entanglement to the orbital angular momentum degree of freedom. Thus our results show a flexible way to create high-dimensional spatial mode entanglement. Moreover, they pave the way to implement broad complex quantum networks where high-dimensionally entangled states could be distributed over distant photonic chips.

AlkuperäiskieliEnglanti
Artikkeli4502
Sivumäärä6
JulkaisuNature Communications
Vuosikerta5
DOI - pysyväislinkit
TilaJulkaistu - heinäk. 2014
Julkaistu ulkoisestiKyllä
OKM-julkaisutyyppiA1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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