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On-chip pulse shaping of entangled photons

Quantum Physics 2025-08-26 v1 Optics

Abstract

We demonstrate spectral shaping of entangled photons with a six-channel microring-resonator-based silicon photonic pulse shaper. Through precise calibration of thermal phase shifters in a microresonator-based pulse shaper, we demonstrate line-by-line phase control on a 3~GHz grid for two frequency-bin-entangled qudits, corresponding to Hilbert spaces of up to 6×66\times 6 (3×33\times 3) dimensions for shared (independent) signal-idler filters. The pulse shaper's fine spectral resolution enables control of nanosecond-scale temporal features, which are observed by direct coincidence detection of biphoton correlation functions that show excellent agreement with theory. This work marks, to our knowledge, the first demonstration of biphoton pulse shaping using an integrated spectral shaper and holds significant promise for applications in quantum information processing.

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@article{arxiv.2409.13638,
  title  = {On-chip pulse shaping of entangled photons},
  author = {Kaiyi Wu and Lucas M. Cohen and Karthik V. Myilswamy and Navin B. Lingaraju and Hsuan-Hao Lu and Joseph M. Lukens and Andrew M. Weiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.13638},
  year   = {2025}
}