On-Chip Manipulation of Single Photons from a Diamond Defect
Jake Kennard, John Patrick Hadden, Luca Marseglia, Igor Aharonovich, Stefania Castelletto, Brian Patton, Alberto Politi, Jonathan C. F. Matthews, Alastair G. Sinclair, Brant C. Gibson, Steven Prawer, John G. Rarity, Jeremy L. O’Brien · Physical Review Letters · 2013
Operating reconfigurable quantum circuits with single photon sources is a key goal of photonic quantum information science and technology. We use an integrated waveguide device containing directional couplers and a reconfigurable thermal phase controller to manipulate single photons emitted from a chromium related color center in diamond. Observation of both a wavelike interference pattern and particlelike sub-Poissionian autocorrelation functions demonstrates coherent manipulation of single photons emitted from the chromium related center and verifies wave particle duality.