Electro-Optic Modulation of Single Photons

2008/08/02 by Pavel Kolchin, Chinmay Belthangady, Shengwang Du +3 · 3 citations
Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Acoustics #Amplitude #Amplitude modulation #Computer science #Exponential function #Frequency modulation #Gaussian #Mathematical analysis #Mathematics #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Modulation (music) #Optics #Phase (matter) #Phase modulation #Photon #Physics #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum mechanics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Radio frequency #Telecommunications #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.101.103601

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Abstract

We use the Stokes photon of a biphoton pair to set the time origin for electro-optic modulation of the wave function of the anti-Stokes photon thereby allowing arbitrary phase and amplitude modulation. We demonstrate conditional single-photon wave functions composed of several pulses, or instead, having Gaussian or exponential shapes.

Citations

• Experimental Evidence for a Photon Anticorrelation Effect on a Beam Splitter: A New Light on Single-Photon Interferences
• Storage and retrieval of single photons transmitted between remote quantum memories

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