Spontaneous parametric down‐conversion sources for multiphoton experiments

C Zhang, YF Huang, BH Liu, CF Li… - Advanced Quantum …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Entangled photon sources are desirable and key elements for photonic quantum information
processing. The spontaneous parametric down‐conversion (SPDC) process is a convenient …

High-efficiency single-photon generation via large-scale active time multiplexing

F Kaneda, PG Kwiat - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Deterministic generation of single-and multiphoton states is a key requirement for large-
scale optical quantum information and communication applications. While heralded single …

All-fiber multiplexed source of high-purity single photons

RJA Francis-Jones, RA Hoggarth, PJ Mosley - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Single-photon sources based on spontaneous photon-pair generation have enabled
pioneering experiments in quantum physics. However, next-generation photonic quantum …

Single-photon sources based on incomplete binary-tree multiplexers with optimal structure

P Adam, M Mechler - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We consider novel types of spatially multiplexed single-photon sources based on output-
extended incomplete binary-tree multiplexers containing general asymmetric routers where …

Single-photon sources based on stepwise optimized binary-tree multiplexers

P Adam, M Mechler - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We propose a spatially multiplexed single-photon source where the structure of the applied
binary-tree multiplexer is optimized systematically during its construction. Along the building …

[HTML][HTML] Single-photon sources based on incomplete binary-tree multiplexers with optimized inputs

P Adam, M Mechler - Physics Letters A, 2024 - Elsevier
We analyze single-photon sources based on minimum-based, maximum-logic output-
extended incomplete binary-tree multiplexers assuming different input mean photon …

Resource-efficient fibre-integrated temporal multiplexing of heralded single photons

RA Hoggarth, RJA Francis-Jones, PJ Mosley - Journal of Optics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a multiplexed single photon source that re-synchronises heralded single
photons generated by four-wave mixing in photonic crystal fibre using a fibre delay loop …

Multiplexed single-photon-state preparation using a fiber-loop architecture

PP Rohde, LG Helt, MJ Steel, A Gilchrist - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
Heralded spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) has become the mainstay for
single-photon-state preparation in present-day photonics experiments. Because they are …

Toward an optical-fiber-based temporally multiplexed single-photon source

AG Magnoni, LT Knoll, L Wölcken, J Defant, J Morales… - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
We demonstrate the feasibility of implementing a photon source with sub-Poissonian
emission statistics through temporal multiplexing of a continuous wave heralded photon …

Performance of a temporally multiplexed single-photon source with imperfect devices

AG Magnoni, IH López Grande, LT Knoll… - Quantum Information …, 2019 - Springer
Scalable photonic quantum technologies require highly efficient sources of single photons
on demand. Although much progress has been done in the field within the last decade, the …