2022/07/14 by A. Padhye, Padhye, A., K. Muhammed Shafi +3
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics) #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Random lasers and scattering media
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2207.06984
openalex publication_date 2022/07/14 · openalex created_date 2022/07/16 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Various quantum technology applications require high-purity single photons with high generation rate. Although different methods are employed to generate such photons, heralded single photons from spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is the most commonly used approach. Photon generation rate from the heralded single-photon sources are limited by the efficiency of the detectors to record coincidence detection of the photon pairs which are lower than the single-photon counts recorded separately on each detector. In this paper we present a revised expression to calculate second-order temporal correlation function, g(2) for any fixed time window (bin) and report the experimental characterization of purity of unheralded and heralded single photons from the SPDC process. With an appropriate choice of time bin for a given pump power, without heralding we show that higher rate of single photons with g(2)(0) = 0 can be generated with very high probability.