Single Photon Source for an Ion Trap Quantum Network
Marc Almendros, Felix Rohde, Carsten Schuck, Jan Huwer, Nicolás Piro, Markus Hennrich, François Dubin, Jürgen Eschner · 2009
Trapped between high numerical aperture laser objectives, a single calcium ion is converted into a high-efficiency source of single photons, with controlled coherence properties. Thereby, various schemes to establish entanglement between remote ions are probed.