Near-transform-limited single photons from an efficient solid-state quantum emitter

Hui Wang; Z.-C. Duan; Y.-H. Li; Si Chen; J.-P. Li; Y.-M. He; M.-C. Chen; Yu He; X. Ding; Cheng-Zhi Peng; Christian Schneider; Martin Kamp; Sven Höfling; Chao-Yang Lu; Jian-Wei Pan

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.213601

Near-transform-limited single photons from an efficient solid-state quantum emitter

Hui Wang, Z.-C. Duan, Y.-H. Li, Si Chen, J.-P. Li, Y.-M. He, M.-C. Chen, Yu He, X. Ding, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Christian Schneider, Martin Kamp, Sven Höfling, Chao-Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan

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By pulsed s-shell resonant excitation of a single quantum dot-micropillar system, we generate long streams of 1000 near-transform-limited single photons with high mutual indistinguishability. The Hong-Ou-Mandel interference of two photons is measured as a function of their emission time separation varying from 13 ns to 14.7 μs, where the visibility slightly drops from 95.9(2)% to a plateau of 92.1(5)% through a slow dephasing process occurring at a time scale of 0.7 μs. A temporal and spectral analysis reveals the pulsed resonance fluorescence single photons are close to the transform limit, which are readily useful for multiphoton entanglement and interferometry experiments.

Original language	English
Article number	213601
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	116
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.213601
Publication status	Published - 27 May 2016

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