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Frontiers in Optics

On-chip Quantum Interference of Transverse Modes with Inverse Designed Structures

Jamika Ann Roque, Daniel Peace, Simon White, Emanuele Polino, Sayantan Das, Sergei Slussarenko, Nora Tischler, Jacquiline Romero

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

Transverse spatial modes have become an increasingly popular degree-of-freedom for encoding quantum information owing to the compact implementation when compared to others such as path. Here we present the demonstration of two photon Hong-Ou-Mandel interference between the different transverse modes in a multimode silicon photonic chip using a compact inverse designed beam splitter with up to 99.56 0.64% interference visibility. We achieve high visibilities across both multiple copies of ±the same design and among different designs. This work demonstrates the potential of inverse designed devices for quantum information processing with transverse spatial modes.

DOI
10.1364/fio.2024.fw7d.3

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