Room temperature stable single-photon source

被引：266

作者：

Beveratos, A

Kühn, S

Brouri, R

Gacoin, T

Poizat, JP

Grangier, P

机构：

[1] Inst Opt, UMR 8501 CNRS, Lab Charles Fabry, F-91403 Orsay, France

[2] Ecole Polytech, Phys Mat Condensee Lab, F-91128 Palaiseau, France

来源：

EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL D | 2002年 / 18卷 / 02期

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D O I：

10.1140/epjd/e20020023

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

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 x 10(1) s(-1) single-photon pulses at ail 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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页数：6

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