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Demonstrating a High Symmetric Single-Photon Heralding Efficiency in Spontaneous Parametric Downconversion

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Marcelo Pereira, Francisco E. Becerra Chavez, Boris L. Glebov, Jingyun Fan, Sae Woo Nam, Alan L. Migdall

Abstract

We demonstrate a symmetric, single-spatial mode, single-photon heralding efficiency of 84% for a type-II spontaneous parametric downconversion process. This achievement of high efficiency, single-spatial mode collection is key to enabling many quantum information processing and quantum metrology applications.
Citation
Optics Letters
Volume
38
Issue
10
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

single photon, quantum information, single mode, photon, heralding efficiency, entanglement, quantum mechanics
Quantum information science, Quantum communications, Physics and Atomic / molecular / quantum

Citation

Pereira, M. , Becerra Chavez, F. , Glebov, B. , Fan, J. , Nam, S. and Migdall, A. (2013), Demonstrating a High Symmetric Single-Photon Heralding Efficiency in Spontaneous Parametric Downconversion, Optics Letters, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=913209 (Accessed October 8, 2025)

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Created May 5, 2013, Updated October 12, 2021
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