High performance guided-wave heralded single photon source at telecom wavelength

O. Alibart; S. Tanzilli; D. B. Ostrowsky; M. P. De Micheli; Pascal Baldi

doi:10.1117/12.608457

7 July 2005 High performance guided-wave heralded single photon source at telecom wavelength

O. Alibart, S. Tanzilli, D. B. Ostrowsky, M. P. De Micheli, Pascal Baldi

Proceedings Volume 5840, Photonic Materials, Devices, and Applications; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.608457
Event: Microtechnologies for the New Millennium 2005, 2005, Sevilla, Spain

Abstract

We report on a guided wave asynchronous heralded photon source based on the creation of non-degenerate photon pairs by spontaneous parametric down conversion in a Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate waveguide. We show that using the signal photon at 1310\nm as a trigger, a gated detection process permits announcing the arrival of single photons at 1550nm at the output of a single mode optical fiber with a high probability of 0.37. At the same time the multi-photon emission probability is reduced by a factor of 10 compared to poissonian light sources.

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O. Alibart, S. Tanzilli, D. B. Ostrowsky, M. P. De Micheli, and Pascal Baldi "High performance guided-wave heralded single photon source at telecom wavelength", Proc. SPIE 5840, Photonic Materials, Devices, and Applications, (7 July 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.608457

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