Sequential entangler of periodic photons in a single input and output mode
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
InventorsAMOS M. SMITH, MICHAEL L. FANTO
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Abstract
An apparatus providing an integrated waveguide device that creates entanglement between a sequence of periodically spaced (in time) photons in a single input and output mode. The invention comprises a polarization maintaining integrated waveguide chip containing a number of delay lines, integrated multimode interferometers with the potential for rapid switching, a polarization controller and off chip computer logic and timing.
Claims10
An apparatus for sequentially entangling photons, comprising:
- a wav guide chip having integrated optical components and interconnecting optical waveguide disposed therein, wherein said optical components further comprise
- an input port connected to said optical waveguide for inputting said photons into said waveguide chip;
- a polarization controller connected to said input port for rotating the polarization of said input port;
- a plurality of delay lines for synchronizing said photons in time;
- a plurality of multimode interferometers for selectably routing said photons through any of said interconnecting optical waveguide;
- a controller for switching the input mode of any of said plurality of multimode interferometers so as to route said photons out of a selected interferometer output port;
- a clock source for synchronizing said controller with the arrival of said photons;
- an entangling gate having bypass and entangling inputs and bypass and entangling outputs for selectively entangling said photons;
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- an output port for routing said entangled photons out of said waveguide chip.
The apparatus of claim I. wherein said polarization controller rotates the polarization of said photons to a plus state.
The apparatus of claim , wherein each of said plurality of multimode interferometers is comprised of multimode optical -waveguide material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.