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We comment on the paper published in PRL 112, 010403 (2014).
Generation of a single photon or a pair of photons from a single emitter is important for quantum information applications. Using the generating function formalism we investigate the theory of a few photons on demand for the square laser…
We greatly expand upon the results of Kochengin, Oliker and Tempeski [S. Kochengin, V. Oliker, O. von Tempeski, On the design of reflectors with prescribed distribution of virtual sources and intensities, Inverse Problems 14 (1998)…
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Comment on L. Hardy, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 73}, 2279 (1994). It is argued that the experiment proposed by Hardy should not be considered as a single photon experiment.
We propose a new single photon source based on the principle of active multiplexing of heralded single photons which, unlike previously reported architecture, requires a limited amount of physical resources. We discuss both its feasibility…
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