Towards high-capacity quantum communications by combining wavelength and time-division multiplexing technologies

In this work, by combining the wavelength- and time-division multiplexing technologies, we demonstrate a multiplexing time-bin entangled photon pair source based on a silicon nanowire waveguide and distribute entangled photons into 3(time) × 14(wavelength) channels independently. The indistinguishability of photon pairs in each time channel is confirmed by a fourfold Hong-Ou-Mandal quantum interference.

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