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Pure Heralded Single photons

Annamaria Dosseva, Łukasz Cincio, Agata M. Brańczyk

Published Jan 1, 2015• 0 citations
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Abstract

We show an order-of-magnitude increase in the spectral purity of heralded single photons by engineering the joint spectrum of downconverted photon-pairs. We do this by customizing the crystal poling configuration using simulated annealing.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2015.fm2a.4

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