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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR)

Efficient single photon collection using a μ-fiber-coupled microcavity

Chang-Min Lee, Hee‐Jin Lim, Christian Schneider, Sebastian Maier, Sven Höfling, Martin Kamp, Yong-Hee Lee

Published Aug 1, 2015• 0 citations
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Abstract

Efficient single photon collection is demonstrated based on a μ-fiber-coupled photonic crystal cavity. 249 kHz of single photons are detected, and estimated single photon count rate(overall collection efficiency) is 20 MHz(25 %).
DOI
10.1109/cleopr.2015.7376435

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