An all-fiber system for generating multi-photon entangled states from a single deterministic single-photon sourc


  Daniel Istrate[1]  ,  Yehuda Pilnyak[1]  ,  Lior Cohen[1]  ,  Hagai Eisenberg[1]  ,  J.C. Loredo Rosillo[2]  ,  C.A. Solanas[2]  ,  P. Hilaire[2]  ,  H. Ollivier[2]  ,  C. Millet[2]  ,  A. Lemaitre[2]  ,  I. Sagnes[2]  ,  A. Harouri[2]  ,  L. Lanco[2]  ,  Pascale Senellart[2]  
[1] The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
[2] Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology CNRS, University Paris-Saclay, C2N

We present a new compact fiber optical system which together with a high brightness single-photon source facilitates the generation of many photon entangled states. This configuration presents a proof of principle for generating states of any number of photons. Generating multi-photon polarization entangled states is one of the main goals of optical quantum technology as these states are a key resource for quantum computation[1]. Notoriously, creating entangled states with larger and larger photon numbers is difficult and complex. This is a result of the non-deterministic emission of current photon sources, different photon source distinguishability and the scalability of such current schemes. Our previous work[2] presented a solution for these using a probabilistic single photon source.

In this work, utilizing a single semi-conductor quantum dot in an electrically controlled cavity as a deterministic high brightness single-photon source[3] we use a specially fabricated compact fiber optical system to facilitate entanglement of consecutive photons. Two-photon entanglement measurements for the

|Φ+) 1/√2(|hh>+eiφ|vv)) in the |p), |m) =1/√2(|h) ± |v)) basis achieved a visibilty of more than 70%.
Applying background reduction, two-photon visibilities of over 90% were reached. Similarly, background reduced three-photon entanglement measurements show visibilities of over 85%.

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[2] Y. Pilnyak, N. Aharon, D. Istrati, E. Megidish, A. Retzker, and H. S. Eisenberg, "Simple source for large linear cluster photonic states", Phys. Rev. A. 95, 022304 (2017).
[3] N. Somaschi, V. Giesz, L. De Santis, J. C. Loredo, M. P. Almeida, G. Hornecker, S. L. Portalupi, T. Grange, C. Antón, J. Demory, C. Gómez, I. Sagnes, N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, A. Lemaítre, A. Auffeves, A. G. White, L. Lanco, and P. Senellart, "Near-optimal single-photon sources in the solid state", Nature Photonics 10, 340 (2016)