High-fidelity entanglement between a trapped ion and a telecom photon via quantum frequency conversion

M Bock, P Eich, S Kucera, M Kreis, A Lenhard… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Entanglement between a stationary quantum system and a flying qubit is an essential
ingredient of a quantum-repeater network. It has been demonstrated for trapped ions …

[HTML][HTML] Background and review of cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric down-conversion

O Slattery, L Ma, K Zong, X Tang - Journal of Research of the …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in a nonlinear crystal has been a
workhorse for the generation of entangled and correlated single-photon pairs used for …

Room-temperature biphoton source with a spectral brightness near the ultimate limit

JM Chen, CY Hsu, WK Huang, SS Hsiao… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Biphotons, generated from a hot atomic vapor via the process of spontaneous four-wave
mixing (SFWM), have the following merits: Stable and tunable frequencies as well as …

Generation of sub-MHz and spectrally-bright biphotons from hot atomic vapors with a phase mismatch-free scheme

CY Hsu, YS Wang, JM Chen, FC Huang, YT Ke… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We utilized the all-copropagating scheme, which maintains the phase-match condition, in
the spontaneous four-wave mixing (SFWM) process to generate biphotons from a hot atomic …

Telecom quantum photonic interface for a 40Ca+ single-ion quantum memory

E Arenskötter, T Bauer, S Kucera, M Bock… - npj Quantum …, 2023 - nature.com
Entanglement-based quantum networks require quantum photonic interfaces between
stationary quantum memories and photons, enabling entanglement distribution. Here we …

Cavity enhanced telecom heralded single photons for spin-wave solid state quantum memories

D Rieländer, A Lenhard, M Mazzera… - New Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on a source of heralded narrowband ($\approx 3$ MHz) single photons
compatible with solid-state spin-wave quantum memories based on praseodymium doped …

Towards optimum Franson interference recurrence in mode-locked singly-filtered biphoton frequency combs

KC Chang, X Cheng, MC Sarihan, CW Wong - Photonics Research, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Mode-locked biphoton frequency combs exhibit multiple discrete comblike temporal
correlations from the Fourier transform of its phase-coherent frequency spectrum. Both …

Nonclassical correlations between a C-band telecom photon and a stored spin-wave

P Farrera, N Maring, B Albrecht, G Heinze… - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Future ground-based quantum information networks will likely use single photons
transmitted through optical fibers to entangle individual network nodes. To extend …

Exploiting vibrational strong coupling to make an optical parametric oscillator out of a Raman laser

J Del Pino, FJ Garcia-Vidal, J Feist - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
When the collective coupling of the rovibrational states in organic molecules and confined
electromagnetic modes is sufficiently strong, the system enters into vibrational strong …

Coherence and entanglement preservation of frequency-converted heralded single photons

A Lenhard, J Brito, M Bock, C Becher, J Eschner - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We report on quantum frequency conversion of near-infrared photons from a wave-length of
854 nm to the telecommunication O-band at 1310 nm with 8% overall conversion efficiency …