Tailoring single-photon and multiphoton probabilities of a single-photon on-demand source
Alan L. Migdall, David Branning, Stefania Castelletto · Physical Review A · 2002
As typically implemented, single-photon sources cannot be made to produce single photons with high probability, while simultaneously suppressing the probability of yielding two or more photons. Because of this, single-photon sources cannot really produce single photons on demand. We describe a multiplexed system that allows the probabilities of producing one and more photons to be adjusted independently, enabling a much better approximation of a source of single photons on demand.