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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Heralded, Pure-State Single-Photon Source Based on a KTP Waveguide

Zachary H. Levine, Jun Chen, Alexander Ling, Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall

Published Jan 1, 2010• 0 citations
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Abstract

We show that with simple spectral filtering, the Schmidt number for the transmitted photon-pairs (with 90% transmittance) which are produced via type-II parametric down-conversion in a KTP waveguide equals to unity to within 0.2 %.
DOI
10.1364/qels.2010.qfb2

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