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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 20, Issue 25, Pages 27510-27519Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027510
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- JSPS
- NICT
- State of Bavaria
- Robert N. Noyce Stanford Graduate Fellowship
- United States AFOSR
- SU2P Entrepreneurial Fellowship
- Royal Society
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Long-distance quantum communication networks require appropriate interfaces between matter qubit-based nodes and low-loss photonic quantum channels. We implement a downconversion quantum interface, where the single photons emitted from a semiconductor quantum dot at 910 nm are downconverted to 1560 nm using a fiber-coupled periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide and a 2.2-mu m pulsed pump laser. The single-photon character of the quantum dot emission is preserved during the downconversion process: we measure a cross-correlation g((2))(tau = 0) = 0.17 using resonant excitation of the quantum dot. We show that the downconversion interface is fully compatible with coherent optical control of the quantum dot electron spin through the observation of Rabi oscillations in the downconverted photon counts. These results represent a critical step towards a long-distance hybrid quantum network in which subsystems operating at different wavelengths are connected through quantum frequency conversion devices and 1.5-mu m quantum channels. (C) 2012 Optical Society of America
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