The effects of filtering on the purity of heralded single photons from parametric sources
arXiv:1705.10953 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.96.053842
Abstract
Optical quantum protocols are reliant on the production of highly pure single photons. However, most parametric heralded single photon sources possess spectral correlations, limiting the purity of the produced photon. The most common method for restoring the purity is with narrowband spectral filtering, which comes at the cost of reducing the rate of heralding detection. Here, we characterize this trade-off analytically for a large class of parametric sources. It is possible to achieve up to 20% heralding success probabilities with 90% heralded photon purities.
arXiv comment9 pages, 9 figures
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