On-demand single-photon source for 1.3μm telecom fiber
- 11 May 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 86 (20), 201111
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1922573
Abstract
We demonstrate an on-demand single-photon source that is compatible with standard telecom optical fiber. Through careful control of the critical strains of self-assembled quantum dots, we produce a microcavity sample with a low density of large dots emitting into the fiber-optic transmission band at . The second-order correlation function of the source reveals a strong suppression in the rate of multiphoton pulses at both and above . The source may be useful for fiber-optic-based single-photon applications, such as quantum metrology, quantum communications, and distributed quantum computing.
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