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2 August 2024 Generating correlated pairs of free electrons and waveguide photons
Jan-Wilke Henke, Armin Feist, Guanhao Huang, Germaine Arend, Yujia Yang, Arslan S. Raja, F. Jasmin Kappert, Jiahe Pan, Hugo Lourenco-Martins, Zheru Qiu, Junqiu Liu, Ofer Kfir, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Claus Ropers
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Abstract
In this talk, we establish chip-based integrated silicon nitride photonics as a platform for experiments on the interactions between free electrons and light. Placing the fibre-coupled microresonators in a transmission electron microscope, we observe a quantised loss of energy for electrons passing the waveguide in an aloof geometry and inelastically scattering off the initially empty cavity modes while generating photons. Coincidence measurements performed on both particles reveal the common origin of these correlated electron-photon pairs, while post-selection allows for enhanced imaging of the resonator’s optical modes and promises applications as a high-fidelity heralded photon Fock state source.
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Jan-Wilke Henke, Armin Feist, Guanhao Huang, Germaine Arend, Yujia Yang, Arslan S. Raja, F. Jasmin Kappert, Jiahe Pan, Hugo Lourenco-Martins, Zheru Qiu, Junqiu Liu, Ofer Kfir, Tobias J. Kippenberg, and Claus Ropers "Generating correlated pairs of free electrons and waveguide photons", Proc. SPIE PC13106, Photonics for Quantum 2024, PC1310607 (2 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3027148
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KEYWORDS
Photons

Electrons

Quantum correlations

Waveguides

Integrated optics

Quantum entanglement

Quantum states

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