With the recent progresses in quantum technologies, single photon sources have gained a primary relevance. Here we present a heralded single photon source characterized by an extremely low level of noise photons, realized by exploiting low-jitter electronics and detectors and fast custom-made electronics used to control an optical shutter (a LiNbO3 waveguide optical switch) at the output of the source. This single photon source showed a second-order autocorrelation function g(2)(0) = 0:005(7), and an Output Noise Factor (defined as the ratio of noise photons to total photons at the source output) of 0:25(1)%, among the best ever achieved.

An extremely low-noise heralded single-photon source without temporal post-selection

DELLA FRERA, ADRIANO;TOSI, ALBERTO;SCARCELLA, CARMELO;RUGGERI, ALESSANDRO;GULINATTI, ANGELO;GHIONI, MASSIMO ANTONIO;
2013-01-01

Abstract

With the recent progresses in quantum technologies, single photon sources have gained a primary relevance. Here we present a heralded single photon source characterized by an extremely low level of noise photons, realized by exploiting low-jitter electronics and detectors and fast custom-made electronics used to control an optical shutter (a LiNbO3 waveguide optical switch) at the output of the source. This single photon source showed a second-order autocorrelation function g(2)(0) = 0:005(7), and an Output Noise Factor (defined as the ratio of noise photons to total photons at the source output) of 0:25(1)%, among the best ever achieved.
2013
Photon Counting Applications IV; and Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Transfer and ProcessingPhoton Counting Applications IV; and Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Transfer and Processing
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