Ultranarrow-Band Photon Pair Source Compatible with Solid State Quantum Memories and Telecommunication Networks

Julia Fekete; Daniel Rielander; Matteo Cristiani; Hugues de Riedmatten

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.220502

Ultranarrow-Band Photon Pair Source Compatible with Solid State Quantum Memories and Telecommunication Networks

Quantum Physics 2014-03-17 v1

Authors: Julia Fekete , Daniel Rielander , Matteo Cristiani , Hugues de Riedmatten

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Abstract

We report on a source of ultranarrow-band photon pairs generated by widely nondegenerate cavity-enhanced spontaneous down-conversion. The source is designed to be compatible with Pr3+ solid state quantum memories and telecommunication optical fibers, with signal and idler photons close to 606 nm and 1436 nm, respectively. Both photons have a spectral bandwidth around 2 MHz, matching the bandwidth of Pr3+ doped quantum memories. This source is ideally suited for long distance quantum communication architectures involving solid state quantum memories.

Keywords

photon pair generation

Cite

@article{arxiv.1304.6861,
  title  = {Ultranarrow-Band Photon Pair Source Compatible with Solid State Quantum Memories and Telecommunication Networks},
  author = {Julia Fekete and Daniel Rielander and Matteo Cristiani and Hugues de Riedmatten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.6861},
  year   = {2014}
}

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5 pages, 5 figures

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