Measuring the single-photon temporal-spectral wave function
arXiv:1709.05248 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.083602
Abstract
Temporal-spectral modes of light provide a fundamental window into the nature of atomic and molecular systems and offer robust means for information encoding. Methods to precisely characterize the temporal-spectral state of light at the single-photon level thus play a central role in understanding quantum emitters and are a key requirement for quantum technologies that harness single-photon states. Here we demonstrate an optical reference-free method, which melds techniques from ultrafast metrology and single-photon spectral detection, to characterize the temporal-spectral state of single photons. This provides a robust, wavelength-tunable approach for rapid characterization of pulsed single-photon states that underpins emerging optical quantum technologies based upon the temporal-spectral mode structure of quantum light.
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