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High-fidelity and polarization insensitive universal photonic processors fabricated by femtosecond laser writing

Authors :
Pentangelo, Ciro
Di Giano, Niki
Piacentini, Simone
Arpe, Riccardo
Ceccarelli, Francesco
Crespi, Andrea
Osellame, Roberto
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

Universal photonic processors (UPPs) are fully programmable photonic integrated circuits that are key components in quantum photonics. With this work, we present a novel platform for the realization of low-loss, low-power and high-fidelity UPPs based on femtosecond laser writing (FLW) and compatible with a large wavelength spectrum. In fact, we demonstrate different UPPs, tailored for operation at 785 nm and 1550 nm, providing similar high-level performances. Moreover, we show that standard calibration techniques applied to FLW-UPPs result in Haar random polarization independent photonic transformations implemented with average amplitude fidelity as high as 0.9979 at 785 nm (0.9970 at 1550 nm), with the possibility of increasing the fidelity over 0.9990 thanks to novel optimization algorithms. Besides being the first demonstrations of polarization-transparent UPPs, these devices show the highest level of control and reconfigurability ever reported for a FLW circuit. These qualities will be greatly beneficial to applications in quantum information processing.

Subjects

Subjects :
Physics - Optics

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2310.19718
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1515/nanoph-2023-0636