Hyperentanglement for quantum telecommunications

We describe how hyperentanglement may be used to give orders of magnitude throughput improvement over singly entangled photon pairs, for some applications. Next we demonstrate the first measurement of hyperentangled photon pairs, both of which are at telecom wavelengths, via simultaneous polarization tomography and time-bin interference measurements. Without cryogenic cooling of the nonlinear element, we measure polarization entanglement with tangle of 0.4 ± 0.2 and time bin entanglement with visibility of 83% ± 6%, both exceeding classical thresholds by approximately two standard deviations.

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