Bandwidth-Tunable Quantum Light Source at 1.5 $μ$m

Abstract

Quantum light sources constitute a crucial physical resource for the construction of quantum networks. Despite remarkable recent progress, there remains a lack of systematic investigation into the bandwidth tunability of quantum light sources under fixed waveguide parameters. In this work, we demonstrate a broadband quantum light source in the 1.5 $μ$m band with tunable bandwidth by changing the temperature of a piece of periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide. In our demonstration, the bandwidth of the quantum light source is tuned from 78.3 nm to 96.2 nm with a temperature change of 1 $^\circ$C . Under different bandwidths, the generation rates of correlated photon pairs are greater than 6.3 MHz with coincidence-to-accidental ratios consistently being no less than 608. The energy-time entanglement properties are measured by using the Franson interference with two-photon interference visibilities larger than 99.06%. Our results provide an effective method for developing the quantum light sources with tunable bandwidth which has great potential for building the large-scale quantum networks.