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View SchemaRoom temperature stable single-photon source
| Authors | Alexios Beveratos, Sergei Kuehn, Rosa Brouri, Thierry Gacoin, Jean-Philippe Poizat, Philippe Grangier |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0110176 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110176 |
| DOI | 10.1140/epjd/e20020023 |
| Journal | EPJ D 18, 191 (2002) |
Abstract
We report on the realization of a stable solid state room temperature source for single photons. It is based on the fluorescence of a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in a diamond nanocrystal. Antibunching has been observed in the fluorescence light under both continuous and pulsed excitation. Our source delivers 2*10^4 single-photon pulses per second at an excitation repetition rate of 10 MHz. The number of two-photon pulses is reduced by a factor of five compared to strongly attenuated coherent sources.
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