Room temperature stable single-photon source

Preprint

31 October 2001

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.quant-ph/0110176

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*10^4 single-photon pulses per second 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.

Keywords

SINGLE PHOTON SOURCE
TEMPERATURE STABLE
STABLE SINGLE
FLUORESCENCE
NANOCRYSTAL
DIAMOND
VACANCY

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Version 1, 2001-10-31, ArXiv
Published version: The European Physical Journal D, 18 (2), 191.

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