Wednesday, February 22, 2012

1110.4718 (Matthew A. Broome et al.)

Reducing multi-photon rates in pulsed down-conversion by temporal
multiplexing
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Matthew A. Broome, Marcelo P. Almeida, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Andrew G. White
We present a simple technique to reduce the emission rate of higher-order
photon events from pulsed spontaneous parametric down-conversion. The technique
uses extra-cavity control over a mode locked ultrafast laser to simultaneously
increase repetition rate and reduce the energy of each pulse from the pump
beam. We apply our scheme to a photonic quantum gate, showing improvements in
the non-classical interference visibility for 2-photon and 4-photon
experiments, and in the quantum-gate fidelity and entangled state production in
the 2-photon case.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.4718

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