Bandwidth-tunable single photon source in an ion trap quantum network
arXiv:0905.3725 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.213601
Abstract
We report a tunable single-photon source based on a single trapped ion. Employing spontaneous Raman scattering and in-vacuum optics with large numerical aperture, single photons are efficiently created with controlled temporal shape and coherence time. These can be varied between 70 ns and 1.6 $μ$s, as characterized by operating two sources simultaneously in two remote ion traps which reveals mutual and individual coherence through two-photon interference.
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