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Frontiers in Optics

Single Photon Adiabatic Wavelength Conversion

Liang Cao, Ali W. Elshaari, Abdelsalam A. Aboketaf, Stefan F. Preble

Published Jan 1, 2012• 1 citation
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Abstract

Here we demonstrate adiabatic wavelength conversion at the single photon level with very low noise and high efficiency. This result is expected to enable wavelength conversion in future quantum optical systems.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2012.ftu4d.5

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