Heralded single photon source at 1550 nm from pulsed parametric down conversion

Alexandre Soujaeff; Shigeki Takeuchi; Keiji Sasaki; Toshio Hasegawa; Mitsuru Matsui

doi:10.1080/09500340600742239

Heralded single photon source at 1550 nm from pulsed parametric down conversion

Quantum Physics 2009-11-13 v1

Authors: Alexandre Soujaeff , Shigeki Takeuchi , Keiji Sasaki , Toshio Hasegawa , Mitsuru Matsui

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Abstract

Heralding of single photon at 1550 nm from pump pulsed non degenerate spontaneous parametric downconversion is demonstrated. P(1) and P(2) of our source are 0.1871 and 2.4 x 10 ^-3 respectively. Triggering of our source is 2.16 x 10^5 trigger.s^-1. This source may be used in QKD system.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0611112,
  title  = {Heralded single photon source at 1550 nm from pulsed parametric down conversion},
  author = {Alexandre Soujaeff and Shigeki Takeuchi and Keiji Sasaki and Toshio Hasegawa and Mitsuru Matsui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0611112},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, 1 figure, accepted by Journal of Modern Optics

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