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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 2000524 |
| Journal | Laser and Photonics Reviews |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| Early online date | 4 May 2021 |
| Publication status | Published - 7 Jul 2021 |
Abstract
Well-controlled yet practical systems that give access to interference effects are critical for established and new functionalities in ultrafast signal processing, quantum photonics, optical coherence characterization, etc. Optical fiber systems constitute a central platform for such technologies. However, harnessing optical interference in a versatile and stable manner remains technologically costly and challenging. Here, degrees of freedom native to optical fibers, i.e., polarization and frequency, are used to demonstrate an easily deployable technique for the retrieval and stabilization of the relative phase in fiber interferometric systems. The scheme gives access (without intricate device isolation) to <1.3 × 10−3 π rad error signal Allan deviation across 1 ms to 1.2 h integration times for all tested phases, ranging from 0 to 2π. More importantly, the phase-independence of this stability is shown across the full 2π range, granting access to arbitrary phase settings, central for, e.g., performing quantum projection measurements and coherent pulse recombination. Furthermore, the scheme is characterized with attenuated optical reference signals and single-photon detectors, and extended functionality is demonstrated through the use of pulsed reference signals (allowing time-multiplexing of both main and reference signals). Finally, the scheme is used to demonstrate radiofrequency-controlled interference of high-dimensional time-bin entangled states.
Keywords
- coherent signal processing, interferometers, quantum photonics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Materials Science(all)
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
- Condensed Matter Physics
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In: Laser and Photonics Reviews, Vol. 15, No. 7, 2000524, 07.07.2021.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Arbitrary Phase Access for Stable Fiber Interferometers
AU - Roztocki, Piotr
AU - MacLellan, Benjamin
AU - Islam, Mehedi
AU - Reimer, Christian
AU - Fischer, Bennet
AU - Sciara, Stefania
AU - Helsten, Robin
AU - Jestin, Yoann
AU - Cino, Alfonso
AU - Chu, Sai T.
AU - Little, Brent
AU - Moss, David J.
AU - Kues, Michael
AU - Morandotti, Roberto
N1 - Funding Information: P.R. and B.M. contributed equally to this work. This work was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through the Steacie, Synergy, Strategic, Discovery and Acceleration Grants Schemes, by the MESI PSR-SIIRI Initiative in Quebec, by the Canada Research Chair Program, and by the Australian Research Council Discovery Projects scheme (DP150104327). P.R. and C.R. acknowledge the support of NSERC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships. B.M. acknowledges support provided by an NSERC CGS-M fellowship. M.K. acknowledges funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement number 656607. S.T.C. acknowledges support from the CityU APRC programme number 9610356. B.L. acknowledges support from the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant number XDB24030300). R.M. is affiliated to the Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences as an adjoint professor. The authors thank J. Aza?a for providing some of the required equipment and S. MacLean as well as H. Eisenberg for useful discussions. Special thanks go to Quantum Opus and N. Bertone of OptoElectronic Components for their continuous support and for providing state-of-the-art photon detection equipment. Open access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. Funding Information: P.R. and B.M. contributed equally to this work. This work was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) through the Steacie, Synergy, Strategic, Discovery and Acceleration Grants Schemes, by the MESI PSR‐SIIRI Initiative in Quebec, by the Canada Research Chair Program, and by the Australian Research Council Discovery Projects scheme (DP150104327). P.R. and C.R. acknowledge the support of NSERC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships. B.M. acknowledges support provided by an NSERC CGS‐M fellowship. M.K. acknowledges funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska‐Curie grant agreement number 656607. S.T.C. acknowledges support from the CityU APRC programme number 9610356. B.L. acknowledges support from the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant number XDB24030300). R.M. is affiliated to the Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences as an adjoint professor. The authors thank J. Azaña for providing some of the required equipment and S. MacLean as well as H. Eisenberg for useful discussions. Special thanks go to Quantum Opus and N. Bertone of OptoElectronic Components for their continuous support and for providing state‐of‐the‐art photon detection equipment.
PY - 2021/7/7
Y1 - 2021/7/7
N2 - Well-controlled yet practical systems that give access to interference effects are critical for established and new functionalities in ultrafast signal processing, quantum photonics, optical coherence characterization, etc. Optical fiber systems constitute a central platform for such technologies. However, harnessing optical interference in a versatile and stable manner remains technologically costly and challenging. Here, degrees of freedom native to optical fibers, i.e., polarization and frequency, are used to demonstrate an easily deployable technique for the retrieval and stabilization of the relative phase in fiber interferometric systems. The scheme gives access (without intricate device isolation) to <1.3 × 10−3 π rad error signal Allan deviation across 1 ms to 1.2 h integration times for all tested phases, ranging from 0 to 2π. More importantly, the phase-independence of this stability is shown across the full 2π range, granting access to arbitrary phase settings, central for, e.g., performing quantum projection measurements and coherent pulse recombination. Furthermore, the scheme is characterized with attenuated optical reference signals and single-photon detectors, and extended functionality is demonstrated through the use of pulsed reference signals (allowing time-multiplexing of both main and reference signals). Finally, the scheme is used to demonstrate radiofrequency-controlled interference of high-dimensional time-bin entangled states.
AB - Well-controlled yet practical systems that give access to interference effects are critical for established and new functionalities in ultrafast signal processing, quantum photonics, optical coherence characterization, etc. Optical fiber systems constitute a central platform for such technologies. However, harnessing optical interference in a versatile and stable manner remains technologically costly and challenging. Here, degrees of freedom native to optical fibers, i.e., polarization and frequency, are used to demonstrate an easily deployable technique for the retrieval and stabilization of the relative phase in fiber interferometric systems. The scheme gives access (without intricate device isolation) to <1.3 × 10−3 π rad error signal Allan deviation across 1 ms to 1.2 h integration times for all tested phases, ranging from 0 to 2π. More importantly, the phase-independence of this stability is shown across the full 2π range, granting access to arbitrary phase settings, central for, e.g., performing quantum projection measurements and coherent pulse recombination. Furthermore, the scheme is characterized with attenuated optical reference signals and single-photon detectors, and extended functionality is demonstrated through the use of pulsed reference signals (allowing time-multiplexing of both main and reference signals). Finally, the scheme is used to demonstrate radiofrequency-controlled interference of high-dimensional time-bin entangled states.
KW - coherent signal processing
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