Telecom photonic quantum networks with matter quantum systems enable a rich variety of applications, such as a long distance quantum cryptography and one-way quantum computing. Preparation of a heralded single excitation (HSE) in an atomic ensemble by detecting a telecom wavelength photon having a correlation with the atomic excitation is an important step. Such a system has been demonstrated with a quantum frequency conversion (QFC) to telecom wavelength employing a Rb atomic cloud. However the limited wavelength selection prevents the next step. Here we for the first time demonstrate HSE with a solid-state-based QFC and a detector for a telecom wavelength that will have a great advantage of the utility of mature telecom technologies. We unambiguously show that the demonstrated HSE indicates a non-classical statistics by the direct measurement of the autocorrelation function.
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@article{arxiv.1607.01465,
title = {Heralded single excitation of atomic ensemble via solid-state-based telecom photon detection},
author = {Rikizo Ikuta and Toshiki Kobayashi and Kenichiro Matsuki and Shigehito Miki and Taro Yamashita and Hirotaka Terai and Takashi Yamamoto and Masato Koashi and Tetsuya Mukai and Nobuyuki Imoto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.01465},
year = {2017}
}