Reducing multi-photon rates in pulsed down-conversion by temporal multiplexing

M. A. Broome; M. P. Almeida; A. Fedrizzi; Andrew G. White

doi:10.1364/OE.19.022698

Reducing multi-photon rates in pulsed down-conversion by temporal multiplexing

M. A. Broome^*, M. P. Almeida, A. Fedrizzi, Andrew G. White

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Abstract

We present a simple technique to reduce the emission rate of higher-order photon events from pulsed spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The technique uses extra-cavity control over a mode locked ultrafast laser to simultaneously increase repetition rate and reduce the energy of each pulse from the pump beam. We apply our scheme to a photonic quantum gate, showing improvements in the non-classical interference visibility for 2-photon and 4-photon experiments, and in the quantum-gate fidelity and entangled state production in the 2-photon case. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	22698-22708
Number of pages	11
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	19
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.022698
Publication status	Published - 7 Nov 2011

Keywords

SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE
ROOM-TEMPERATURE
QUANTUM-DOT

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