Light carrying orbital angular momentum constitutes an important resource for both classical and quantum information technologies. Its inherently unbounded nature can be exploited to generate high-dimensional quantum states or for channel multiplexing in classical and quantum communication in order to significantly boost the data capacity and the secret key rate, respectively. While the big potentials of light owning orbital angular momentum have been widely ascertained, its technological deployment is still limited by the difficulties deriving from the fabrication of integrated and scalable photonic devices able to generate and manipulate it. Here, we present a photonic integrated chip able to excite orbital angular momentum modes in an 800 m long ring-core fiber, allowing us to perform parallel quantum key distribution using two and three different modes simultaneously. The experiment sets the first steps towards quantum orbital angular momentum division multiplexing enabled by a compact and light-weight silicon chip, and further pushes the development of integrated scalable devices supporting orbital angular momentum modes.

Photonic integrated chip enabling orbital angular momentum multiplexing for quantum communication / Mujtaba Zahidy; Yaoxin Liu; Daniele Cozzolino; Yunhong Ding; Toshio Morioka; Leif K. Oxenl??we; Davide Bacco. - In: NANOPHOTONICS. - ISSN 2192-8606. - ELETTRONICO. - 11:(2021), pp. 821-827. [10.1515/nanoph-2021-0500]

Photonic integrated chip enabling orbital angular momentum multiplexing for quantum communication

Davide Bacco
2021

Abstract

Light carrying orbital angular momentum constitutes an important resource for both classical and quantum information technologies. Its inherently unbounded nature can be exploited to generate high-dimensional quantum states or for channel multiplexing in classical and quantum communication in order to significantly boost the data capacity and the secret key rate, respectively. While the big potentials of light owning orbital angular momentum have been widely ascertained, its technological deployment is still limited by the difficulties deriving from the fabrication of integrated and scalable photonic devices able to generate and manipulate it. Here, we present a photonic integrated chip able to excite orbital angular momentum modes in an 800 m long ring-core fiber, allowing us to perform parallel quantum key distribution using two and three different modes simultaneously. The experiment sets the first steps towards quantum orbital angular momentum division multiplexing enabled by a compact and light-weight silicon chip, and further pushes the development of integrated scalable devices supporting orbital angular momentum modes.
2021
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Mujtaba Zahidy; Yaoxin Liu; Daniele Cozzolino; Yunhong Ding; Toshio Morioka; Leif K. Oxenl??we; Davide Bacco
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