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Fibre source of heralded single photons at 1550nm

Chunhe Xiong, Alex R. McMillan, Olivier Alibart, Jérémie Fulconis, John Rarity, W. J. Wadsworth

Published May 4, 2008• 1 citation
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Abstract

We demonstrate a bright fibre source of heralded single photons at 1550 nm with detected rates greater than 10 kilocounts per second. Photon generation and separation is performed in spliced fibre components.
DOI
10.1109/qels.2008.4552970

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