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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

A deterministic single-photon source

Kevin T. McCusker, Nicholas A. Peters, Aaron P. VanDevender, Paul G. Kwiat

Published May 1, 2008• 4 citations
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Abstract

We are developing an experimental setup to deterministically create single photons using spontaneous downconversion. We expect our source to output a single photon with a probability of 70%, and two photons with less than 3%.
DOI
10.1109/cleo.2008.4552138

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