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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Large-scale spectral bandwidth compression of telecom single-photon pulses

Filip Sośnicki, Michał Mikołajczyk, Ali Golestani, Adam Widomski, Michał Karpiński

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate electro-optic spectral bandwidth conversion of broadband single-photon pulses by more than 2 orders of magnitude to sub-2 GHz bandwidth. The results will enable photonic quantum network interfaces.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2020.fm1c.1

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