An Efficient, High-Quality Single-Photon Source
Xing Ding, Yu He, Z.-C. Duan, M.-C. Chen, Sebastian Unsleber, Stefan Alexander Maier, Christian Schneider, Martin Kamp, Sven Höfling, Niels Gregersen, Chao‐Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan · Optics and Photonics News · 2016
In recent decades, single-photon sources have emerged as key resources in the emerging field of quantum information, including quantum key distribution, quantum teleportation and optical quantum computing. To be practically useful for scalable quantum technologies, a single-photon source must simultaneously possess three qualities: high purity, photon indistinguishability and efficiency. We have developed a single-photon source that combines all three of these key features into a single device.