Ultranarrow-Band Photon-Pair Source Compatible with Solid State Quantum Memories<? format?> and Telecommunication Networks

J Fekete, D Rieländer, M Cristiani, H de Riedmatten - Physical review letters, 2013 - APS
We report on a source of ultranarrow-band photon pairs generated by widely
nondegenerate cavity-enhanced spontaneous down-conversion. The source is designed to …

Narrow Band Source of Transform-Limited Photon Pairs via Four-Wave Mixing<? format?> in a Cold Atomic Ensemble

B Srivathsan, GK Gulati, B Chng, G Maslennikov… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We observe narrow band pairs of time-correlated photons of wavelengths 776 and 795 nm
from nondegenerate four-wave mixing in a laser-cooled atomic ensemble of Rb 87 using a …

Heralded single-photon absorption by a single atom

N Piro, F Rohde, C Schuck, M Almendros, J Huwer… - Nature Physics, 2011 - nature.com
Emission and absorption of single photons by single atoms is a fundamental limit of matter–
light interaction, manifesting its quantum mechanical nature. As a controlled process, it is …

Generation of single photons with highly tunable wave shape from a cold atomic ensemble

P Farrera, G Heinze, B Albrecht, M Ho… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The generation of ultra-narrowband, pure and storable single photons with widely tunable
wave shape is an enabling step toward hybrid quantum networks requiring interconnection …

[HTML][HTML] Sub-megahertz linewidth single photon source

M Rambach, A Nikolova, TJ Weinhold, AG White - APL Photonics, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We report 100% duty cycle generation of sub-MHz single photon pairs at the rubidium D 1
line using cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric downconversion. The temporal intensity …

Optical quantum computation

TC Ralph, GJ Pryde - Progress in optics, 2010 - Elsevier
We review the field of Optical Quantum Computation, considering the various
implementations that have been proposed and the experimental progress that has been …

Ultrabright, narrow-band photon-pair source for atomic quantum memories

PJ Tsai, YC Chen - Quantum Science and Technology, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate an ultrabright, narrow-band and frequency-tunable photon-pair source
based on cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) which is …

Super-stable tomography of any linear optical device

A Laing, JL O'Brien - arxiv preprint arxiv:1208.2868, 2012 - arxiv.org
Linear optical circuits of growing complexity are playing an increasing role in emerging
photonic quantum technologies. Individual photonic devices are typically described by a …

Theory of cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric downconversion

Y Jeronimo-Moreno, S Rodriguez-Benavides… - Laser physics, 2010 - Springer
In this paper we study photon pairs generated in a nonlinear cavity composed of a nonlinear
crystal surrounded by mirrors, by the process of spotaneous parametric downconversion …

Experimental protocol for high-fidelity heralded photon-to-atom quantum state transfer

C Kurz, M Schug, P Eich, J Huwer, P Müller… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
A quantum network combines the benefits of quantum systems regarding secure information
transmission and calculational speed-up by employing quantum coherence and …