Experimental realization of a low-noise heralded single photon source

G. Brida; I. P. Degiovanni; M. Genovese; A. Migdall; F. Piacentini; S. V. Polyakov; I. Ruo Berchera

doi:10.1364/OE.19.001484

Experimental realization of a low-noise heralded single photon source

Quantum Physics 2015-05-19 v1

Authors: G. Brida , I. P. Degiovanni , M. Genovese , A. Migdall , F. Piacentini , S. V. Polyakov , I. Ruo Berchera

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Abstract

We present a heralded single-photon source with a much lower level of unwanted background photons in the output channel by using the herald photon to control a shutter in the heralded channel. The shutter is implemented using a simple field programable gate array controlled optical switch.

Keywords

single-photon sources

Cite

@article{arxiv.1007.2512,
  title  = {Experimental realization of a low-noise heralded single photon source},
  author = {G. Brida and I. P. Degiovanni and M. Genovese and A. Migdall and F. Piacentini and S. V. Polyakov and I. Ruo Berchera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.2512},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 5 figures

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