Challenges
Datasets
Workspaces
Papers
Discussions
Leaderboard
Log inSign up
Challenges
Datasets
Workspaces
Papers
Discussions
Leaderboard
Blog
Job Board
Q3AS

© 2026 Aqora Quantum S.A.S.

TermsPrivacyLegal Notice

Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Photonic time-bin qubit generation with a tripod atomic system

Davit Aghamalyan, Yu. P. Malakyan

Published Oct 29, 2010• 3 citations
Publisher

Abstract

A new method of preparing a single photon in temporally delocalized entangled modes is proposed and analyzed. We show that in a medium of four-level atoms with tripod-level configuration a strong parametric interaction between two one-photon pulses emerges, if the medium was initially prepared in a coherent superposition of the two ground states, while a strong classical field drives the neighbor transition from the third ground state. The analytical solution of Maxwell equations reveals that under the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), the quantum fields propagate with significantly small absorption and with different group velocities that leads to their temporal split into well-separated pulses, the amplitudes of which are well controlled by the driving field. The proposed scheme can serve as a robust source of narrow-band one-photon qubits with an entanglement between two temporal modes, not sensitive to losses in atmosphere and in telecommunication waveguides. We show also that in our scheme a controllable degree of temporal entanglement can be achieved.

DOI
10.1117/12.890874

Related papers

Creation of a photonic time-bin qubit via parametric interaction of photons in a driven resonant medium

Narek Sisakyan, Yu. P. Malakyan

A method of preparing a single photon in temporally delocalized entangled modes is proposed and analyzed. We show that two single-photon pulses propagating in a driven nonabsorbing medium with different group velocities are temporally split under parametric interaction into well-separated pulses. As a consequence, the single-photon ``time-bin-entangled'' states are generated with a programmable entanglement, which is easily controlled by driving field intensity. The experimental study of nonclassical features and nonlocality in generated states by means of balanced homodyne tomography is discussed.

arXiv:0912.1544•Physical Review A•Jun 28, 2007•8 citations

Quantum frequency conversion with coherent transfer of time-bin encoding

Sh. Petrosyan, Yuri P. Malakyan

Time-bin encoding of photons offers a robust kind of long-distance quantum communication over lossy channels. The diversity of material nodes in quantum networks operating at natural frequencies requires coherent frequency and wave-form conversion of information-carrying photons to provide an efficient quantum interface with optical fibers and various quantum memories, which has been extensively studied. However, the quantum frequency conversion with transfer of time-bin encoding between single photons of different wavelengths has not yet been explored. In this paper, we present a method for efficiently exchanging time-bin encoding in the conversion process between two photons propagating in cold tripod atoms driven by a strong laser field. The latter is designed to slow down photons and suppress their absorption due to electromagnetically induced transparency. Photons interact parametrically through modified atomic coherence, which is utilized also to achieve equal group velocities of photons. We demonstrate the ability of our model to generate entanglement between distant atoms that equally share the original quantum information stored in the ground-state polarization qubits of both atoms. The proposed method for frequency conversion based on modified atomic coherence is promising because it can simplify the implementation of reliable and high-speed quantum communication protocols based on single-photon entanglement.

Physical Review A•May 26, 2022•1 citation

Heralded generation of single photons entangled in multiple temporal modes with controllable waveforms

Anahit L. Gogyan, Narek Sisakyan, Ахмеджанов Ринат Абдулхаевич +1 more

Time-bin entangled single-photons are highly demanded for long distance quantum communication. We propose a heralded source of tunable narrowband single photons entangled in well-separated multiple temporal modes (time bins) with controllable amplitudes. The detection of a single Stokes photon generated in a cold atomic ensemble via Raman scattering of a weak write pulse heralds the preparation of one spin excitation stored within the atomic medium. A train of read laser pulses deterministically converts the atomic excitation into a single anti-Stokes photon delocalized in multi-time-bins. The waveforms of bins are well-controlled by the read pulse parameters. A scheme to measure the phase coherence across all time bins is suggested.

arXiv:1411.4269•Laser Physics•Oct 2, 2014•2 citations

Modulation of single-photon-level wave packets with two-component electromagnetically induced transparency

Sheng-Jun Yang, Xiao‐Hui Bao, Jian-Wei Pan

Coherent manipulation of single-photon wave packets is essentially important for optical quantum communication and quantum information processing. In this paper, we realize controllable splitting and modulation of single-photon-level pulses by using a tripod-type atomic medium. The adoption of two control beams enable us to store one signal pulse into superposition of two distinct atomic collective excitations. By controlling the time delay between the two control pulses, we observe splitting of a stored wave packet into two temporally distinct modes. By controlling the frequency detuning of the control beams, we observe both temporal and frequency-domain interference of the retrieval signal pulses, which provides a method for pulse modulation and multisplitting of the signal photons.

arXiv:1501.06713•Physical Review A•May 7, 2015•19 citations

Coherent propagation of a single photon in a lossless medium: 0 π pulse formation, storage, and retrieval in multiple temporal modes

Sh. Petrosyan, Yu. P. Malakyan

Single-photon coherent optics represents a fundamental importance for the investigation of quantum light-matter interactions. While most work has considered the interaction in the steady-state regime, here we demonstrate that a single-photon pulse shorter than any relaxation time in a medium propagates without energy loss and is consistently transformed into a zero-area pulse. A general analytical solution is found for photon passage through a cold ensemble of $\ensuremath{\Lambda}$-type atoms confined inside a hollow core of a single-mode photonic-crystal fiber. We use the robust far-off-resonant Raman scheme to control the pulse reshaping by an intense control laser beam and show that in the case of cw control field, for exact two-photon resonance, the outgoing photon displays an oscillating temporal distribution, which is the quantum counterpart of a classical field ringing, while for nonzero two-photon detuning a slow photon is produced. We demonstrate also that a train of readout control pulses coherently recalls the stored photon in many well-separated temporal modes, thus producing time-bin entangled single-photon states. Such states, which allow sharing quantum information among many users, are highly demanded for applications in long-distance quantum communication.

arXiv:1310.1212•Physical Review A•Dec 6, 2013•7 citations

Generation of photonic time-bin qubit in dense atomic media

Narek Sisakyan, Yu. P. Malakyan

In this paper, we report a scheme for generation of entangled single-photon states coherently delocalized in two well-separated temporal modes. The proposed scheme employs strong nonclassical correlations between the Stokes and anti-Stokes photons generated and represents a remotely source for Stokes time-bin. We analyze the entangled nature and nonlocality in Stokes qubit by employing the Bell's inequality formulated for two-mode Wigner function.

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)•Jun 1, 2007•0 citations
A new method of preparing a single photon in temporally delocalized entangled modes is proposed and analyzed. We show that in a medium of four-level atoms with tripod-level configuration a strong parametric interaction between two one-photon pulses emerges, if the medium was initially prepared in a coherent superposition of the two ground states, while a strong classical field drives the neighbor transition from the third ground state. The analytical solution of Maxwell equations reveals that under the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), the quantum fields propagate with significantly small absorption and with different group velocities that leads to their temporal split into well-separated pulses, the amplitudes of which are well controlled by the driving field. The proposed scheme can serve as a robust source of narrow-band one-photon qubits with an entanglement between two temporal modes, not sensitive to losses in atmosphere and in telecommunication waveguides. We show also that in our scheme a controllable degree of temporal entanglement can be achieved.
A method of preparing a single photon in temporally delocalized entangled modes is proposed and analyzed. We show that two single-photon pulses propagating in a driven nonabsorbing medium with different group velocities are temporally split under parametric interaction into well-separated pulses. As a consequence, the single-photon ``time-bin-entangled'' states are generated with a programmable entanglement, which is easily controlled by driving field intensity. The experimental study of nonclassical features and nonlocality in generated states by means of balanced homodyne tomography is discussed.
Time-bin encoding of photons offers a robust kind of long-distance quantum communication over lossy channels. The diversity of material nodes in quantum networks operating at natural frequencies requires coherent frequency and wave-form conversion of information-carrying photons to provide an efficient quantum interface with optical fibers and various quantum memories, which has been extensively studied. However, the quantum frequency conversion with transfer of time-bin encoding between single photons of different wavelengths has not yet been explored. In this paper, we present a method for efficiently exchanging time-bin encoding in the conversion process between two photons propagating in cold tripod atoms driven by a strong laser field. The latter is designed to slow down photons and suppress their absorption due to electromagnetically induced transparency. Photons interact parametrically through modified atomic coherence, which is utilized also to achieve equal group velocities of photons. We demonstrate the ability of our model to generate entanglement between distant atoms that equally share the original quantum information stored in the ground-state polarization qubits of both atoms. The proposed method for frequency conversion based on modified atomic coherence is promising because it can simplify the implementation of reliable and high-speed quantum communication protocols based on single-photon entanglement.
Time-bin entangled single-photons are highly demanded for long distance quantum communication. We propose a heralded source of tunable narrowband single photons entangled in well-separated multiple temporal modes (time bins) with controllable amplitudes. The detection of a single Stokes photon generated in a cold atomic ensemble via Raman scattering of a weak write pulse heralds the preparation of one spin excitation stored within the atomic medium. A train of read laser pulses deterministically converts the atomic excitation into a single anti-Stokes photon delocalized in multi-time-bins. The waveforms of bins are well-controlled by the read pulse parameters. A scheme to measure the phase coherence across all time bins is suggested.
Coherent manipulation of single-photon wave packets is essentially important for optical quantum communication and quantum information processing. In this paper, we realize controllable splitting and modulation of single-photon-level pulses by using a tripod-type atomic medium. The adoption of two control beams enable us to store one signal pulse into superposition of two distinct atomic collective excitations. By controlling the time delay between the two control pulses, we observe splitting of a stored wave packet into two temporally distinct modes. By controlling the frequency detuning of the control beams, we observe both temporal and frequency-domain interference of the retrieval signal pulses, which provides a method for pulse modulation and multisplitting of the signal photons.
Single-photon coherent optics represents a fundamental importance for the investigation of quantum light-matter interactions. While most work has considered the interaction in the steady-state regime, here we demonstrate that a single-photon pulse shorter than any relaxation time in a medium propagates without energy loss and is consistently transformed into a zero-area pulse. A general analytical solution is found for photon passage through a cold ensemble of $\ensuremath{\Lambda}$-type atoms confined inside a hollow core of a single-mode photonic-crystal fiber. We use the robust far-off-resonant Raman scheme to control the pulse reshaping by an intense control laser beam and show that in the case of cw control field, for exact two-photon resonance, the outgoing photon displays an oscillating temporal distribution, which is the quantum counterpart of a classical field ringing, while for nonzero two-photon detuning a slow photon is produced. We demonstrate also that a train of readout control pulses coherently recalls the stored photon in many well-separated temporal modes, thus producing time-bin entangled single-photon states. Such states, which allow sharing quantum information among many users, are highly demanded for applications in long-distance quantum communication.