Journal of Quantum Optics, Volume. 29, Issue 2, 20702(2023)

Frequency Down-conversion of Optical Field Based on PPLN Waveguide and Long-distance Transmission

BAO Jia-xin1,2, DENG Qi-qi1,2, LIU Hai-long1,2, LI Shu-jing1,2、*, and WANG Hai1,2
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    Quantum communication holds promise for absolutely secure transmission of secret messages and the faithful transfer of unknown quantum states. Photonic channels appear to be very attractive for the physical implementation of quantum communication. To achieve long-distance transmission of quantum states, quantum repeaters are essential, which contain quantum memories. Atomic ensemble, single atom, trapped ions and solid-state systems are all potential candidates for quantum repeater, in which quantum storage has been actively performed. The majority of these quantum memories operate at visible wavelengths. However, the visible wavelength bands photons have a large transmission loss in the optical fiber and cannot be directly transmitted over long distances. To achieve efficient long-distance quantum communication, the visible band needs to be converted to the communication band. Here we demonstrate a frequency conversion from rubidium D1 line (795 nm) to the telecom L-band (1 621 nm) based on difference frequency generation by using a fiber-coupled waveguide module. In quantum frequency conversion process, the strong pumping beam causes spontaneous Raman scattering (SRS) noise, which typically covers a region of several hundreds of nanometers. The noise suppression is important for improving the signal-noise ratio (SNR) of the converted field, especially for the frequency conversion of quantum state light field. To suppress the broadband noise, we use two cascaded etalons to narrow the noise bandwidth to 256 MHz and the transmission of the converted photons through a 15 km optical fiber. When the input light is strongly coherent continuous light, the maximum external conversion efficiency of the device was measured to be 0.95%. We use a single photon detector to measure the noise level after the filtering system. When the pump power is 400mW, the noise count is 1.5×104s-1. When the 795nm input pulse is attenuated to the single-photon level, westudy the signal-to-noise ratio of converted photons under different input pulse widths and the mean number of photons, we show that the SNR of converted field is 1.5 when the input photon number is 2 under the condition of low external device conversionefficiency (0.84%) and short duration of input pulse (30 ns). This work is a meaningful attempt to realize the quantum interface between quantum memory at 87Rb D1 line and telecom band.

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    BAO Jia-xin, DENG Qi-qi, LIU Hai-long, LI Shu-jing, WANG Hai. Frequency Down-conversion of Optical Field Based on PPLN Waveguide and Long-distance Transmission[J]. Journal of Quantum Optics, 2023, 29(2): 20702

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    Received: Aug. 18, 2022

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 15, 2024

    The Author Email: LI Shu-jing (lishujing@sxu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/jqo20232902.0702

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