The Quantum Utility: Comparing Single Photon Sources
Alex S. Clark, Chad A. Husko, Matthew J. Collins, Alfredo De Rossi, Sylvain Combrié, Gaëlle Lehoucq, Isabella H. Rey, Thomas F. Krauss, Chunhe Xiong, Benjamin J. Eggleton · 2013
We devise a new figure of merit, the quantum utility (QMU), enabling direct comparison of single photon sources. Measuring counts, coincidence-to-accidental ratios and second-order correlation functions, we compute the QMU for sources in two materials.