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NATURE PHOTONICS
Volume 9, Issue 2, Pages 83-87Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON.2014.311
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- Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF)
- National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information in a Photon (InPho) programme
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The realization of a future quantum Internet requires the processing and storage of quantum information at local nodes and interconnecting distant nodes using free-space and fibreoptic links(1). Quantum memories for light(2) are key elements of such quantum networks. However, to date, neither an atomic quantum memory for non- classical states of light operating at a wavelength compatible with standard telecom fibre infrastructure, nor a fibre-based implementation of a quantum memory, has been reported. Here, we demonstrate the storage and faithful recall of the state of a 1,532 nm wavelength photon entangled with a 795 nm photon, in an ensemble of cryogenically cooled erbium ions doped into a 20-m-long silica fibre, using a photon-echo quantum memory protocol. Despite its currently limited efficiency and storage time, our broadband light-matter interface brings fibre-based quantum networks one step closer to reality.
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