Remotely prepared single-photon time-encoded ebits: homodyne tomography characterization

We propose and experimentally verify a novel method for the remote preparation of entangled bits (ebits) made of a single photon coherently delocalized between two well-separated temporal modes. The proposed scheme represents a remotely tunable source for tailoring arbitrary ebits, whether maximally or non-maximally entangled, which is highly desirable for applications in quantum information technology. The remotely prepared ebit is studied by performing two-mode homodyne tomography with an ultra-fast time-domain balanced homodyne detection scheme recently developed in our laboratory.