Study of multiple degrees of freedom entanglement in optical fiber

Abstract: The orbital angular momentum (OAM) has attracted widespread attention due to its ability to carry information in multiple dimensions. However, a high-dimensional entanglement carrying OAM can be affected by environment and undergoes decoherence. Ensuring the stability and high fidelity of entangled states after transmission is a crucial part of quantum communication. How to control the entangled states are essential. In this paper, we produce the polarization entangled photon pairs by type I BBO crystals by means of spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), we achieve the polarization-OAM hybrid entangled states by q-plate (QP) by means of manipulating the multi-degrees of freedom of the quantum state after passing through the APD communication channel. The polarization entangled photon pairs have the characteristics of OAM. We use polarization degree of freedom to modulate OAM degree of freedom, our polarization-OAM hybrid entangled states can slow down the reduction of the fidelity in the during of transmission process. Our quantum states exhibit a superior level of fidelity contrast with the conventional situation. This method will provide a theoretical guidance for improving the transmission fidelity of OAM states in fiber.