FPGA-Based Adaptive Control for Phase Stabilization in Fiber-Optic Interferometers Using Correlated Photons

TL;DR

This paper presents an FPGA-based adaptive control system that stabilizes phase in fiber-optic interferometers for quantum communication, significantly improving stability and noise reduction through real-time feedback.

Contribution

It introduces a novel FPGA implementation of an adaptive Perturbation-and-Observe algorithm for phase stabilization in quantum photonic systems.

Findings

Reduced phase stabilization rise time by 70%

Decreased coincidence noise by 30%

Maintained visibility improvements over 600 seconds

Abstract

Time-bin encoded photon pairs enable robust, decoherence-resistant transmission through optical fibers for long-distance quantum communication, where phase noise poses a critical limitation to stable operation. Here, we implement an adaptive Perturbation-and-Observe algorithm on a fully digital FPGA platform operating with real-time feedback at 1 Hz. The control signal is derived from the coincidence counts of correlated photon pairs. This adaptive approach reduces the rise time by 70\% and the coincidence noise by 30\%, resulting in visibility improvements sustained for more than 600 s.These results provide an efficient solution for long-term phase stabilization in quantum and photonic systems.