On-Chip Manipulation of Single Photons from a Diamond Defect

2013/04/19 by Jake Kennard, J. E. Kennard, J. P. Hadden +22 · 38 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Computer science #Diamond #Interference (communication) #Interferometry #Materials science #Optics #Optoelectronics #Photon #Photonic and Optical Devices #Photonics #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum information #Quantum mechanics #Quantum optics #Telecommunications #Waveguide #physics.optics #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.111.213603

published in Physical Review Letters 111(21), 213603 (American Physical Society)

arxiv created 2013/04/19 · openalex publication_date 2013/11/20 · arxiv updated 2013/11/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Operating reconfigurable quantum circuits with single photon sources is a key goal of photonic quantum information science and technology. We use an integrated waveguide device containing directional couplers and a reconfigurable thermal phase controller to manipulate single photons emitted from a chromium related color center in diamond. Observation of both a wavelike interference pattern and particlelike sub-Poissionian autocorrelation functions demonstrates coherent manipulation of single photons emitted from the chromium related center and verifies wave particle duality.

Citations

• Quantum Interference of Single Photons from Remote Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond
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• Experimental Evidence for a Photon Anticorrelation Effect on a Beam Splitter: A New Light on Single-Photon Interferences
• A Quantum Delayed-Choice Experiment
• Generating, manipulating and measuring entanglement and mixture with a reconfigurable photonic circuit