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International Conference on Quantum Information

Spectrally Bright and Broad Fiber-Based Heralded Single-Photon Source

Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, Matthew D. Eisaman, Jingyun Fan, Sergey V. Polyakov, J. Chen, Alan L. Migdall

Published Jan 1, 2008• 3 citations
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Abstract

We report the development of a spectrally bright and broad heralded single-photon source based on spontaneous four-wave-mixing in a single-mode fiber, measuring the second-order correlation function, g(2)(0), far below unity over a broad spectral range.
DOI
10.1364/icqi.2008.qwc4

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