Heralding Single Photons from Pulsed Parametric Down-Conversion

T. B. Pittman; B. C Jacobs; J. D. Franson

doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2004.11.027

Heralding Single Photons from Pulsed Parametric Down-Conversion

Quantum Physics 2009-11-10 v2

Authors: T. B. Pittman , B. C Jacobs , J. D. Franson

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Abstract

We describe an experiment in which photon pairs from a pulsed parametric down-conversion source were coupled into single-mode fibers. Detecting one of the photons heralded the presence of the other photon in its fiber with a probability of 83%. The heralded photons were then used in a simple multi-photon interference experiment to illustrate their potential for quantum information applications.

Keywords

spontaneous parametric down-conversion single-photon sources quantum optics

Cite

@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0408093,
  title  = {Heralding Single Photons from Pulsed Parametric Down-Conversion},
  author = {T. B. Pittman and B. C Jacobs and J. D. Franson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0408093},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 7 figures. Version 2 has minor revisions

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