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Heralding Single Photons from Pulsed Parametric Down-Conversion

T. B. Pittman, B. C Jacobs, J. D. Franson

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0408093

Abstract

We describe an experiment in which photon pairs from a pulsed parametric down-conversion source were coupled into single-mode fibers. Detecting one of the photons heralded the presence of the other photon in its fiber with a probability of 83%. The heralded photons were then used in a simple multi-photon interference experiment to illustrate their potential for quantum information applications.

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