Efficient generation of temporally shaped photons using nonlocal spectral filtering

Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular, and Optical physics. 2020. Vol. 101. No. 1. Article 013808.

Averchenko V., Sych D., Marquardt C., Leuchs G.

We study the generation of single-photon pulses with the tailored temporal shape via nonlocal spectral filtering. A shaped photon is heralded from a time-energy entangled photon pair upon spectral filtering and time-resolved detection of its entangled counterpart. We show that the temporal shape of the heralded photon is defined by the time-inverted impulse response of the spectral filter and does not depend on the heralding instant. Thus one can avoid postselection of particular heralding instants and achieve a substantially higher heralding rate of shaped photons as compared to the generation of photons via nonlocal temporal modulation. Furthermore, the method can be used to generate shaped photons with a coherence time in the ns-μ s range and is particularly suitable to produce photons with the exponentially rising temporal shape required for efficient interfacing to a single quantum emitter in free space.

Keywords: фотоника, photonics, single photons, одиночные фотоны