Room temperature stable single-photon source

A. Beveratos; S. Kühn; R. Brouri; T. Gacoin; J. P. Poizat; P. Grangier

doi:10.1140/epjd/e20020023

Room temperature stable single-photon source

A. Beveratos
, S. Kühn
, R. Brouri
, T. Gacoin
, J. P. Poizat
, P. Grangier

Laboratoire Charles Fabry

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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 2×10⁴ s^-1 single-photon pulses 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	191-196
Number of pages	6
Journal	European Physical Journal D
Volume	18
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e20020023
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2002

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