Nonlinear Optics

Lossless single photon shaping via heralding

Yu‐Ping Huang, Kahraman G. Köprülü, Geraldo A. Barbosa, Prem Kumar

Published Jan 1, 2011• 2 citations

Abstract

Using spontaneous optical parametric down-conversion, we analyze and experimentally demonstrate heralded generation of shaped single photons, whose modes are losslessly tailored via amplitude modulation on the pump field that drives the down-conversion process.

DOI: 10.1364/nlo.2011.nmb6

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