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Spectrally Bright and Broad Fiber-Based Heralded Single-Photon Source

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Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, M D. Eisaman, Jingyun Fan, Sergey V. Polyakov, Alan L. Migdall

Abstract

We present the first experimental characterization of a heralded single-photon source based on spontaneous four-wave-mixing in a single-mode microstructure fiber. We measure the second-order correlation function, g(2)(0), to be far below the classical, Poissonian limit over a broad spectral range. We further examine the wave-particle duality of single photon wavepacket with interference visibility measured near unity. With single spatial mode output, such a spectrally bright and broad fiber-based heralded single photon source is suitable for a variety of quantum-information applications.
Citation
Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics)
Volume
78
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

four-wave mixing, Heralded Single Photon Source, second order correlation function
Quantum communications, Physics and Quantum information science

Citation

Goldschmidt, E. , Eisaman, M. , Fan, J. , Polyakov, S. and Migdall, A. (2008), Spectrally Bright and Broad Fiber-Based Heralded Single-Photon Source, Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=842447 (Accessed October 7, 2025)

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Created July 29, 2008, Updated February 19, 2017
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