• DocumentCode
    732658
  • Title

    Low-noise quantum frequency translation of single photons

  • Author

    Farsi, Alessandro ; Clemmen, Stephane ; Ramelow, Sven ; Gaeta, Alexander L.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Appl. & Eng. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate quantum frequency translation of single photons via four-wave-mixing Bragg scattering using a liquid nitrogen cooled dispersion-shifted fiber. We achieve 80% photon conversion efficiency with less than 0.001 noise photons per 5ns gate.
  • Keywords
    multiwave mixing; nitrogen; optical fibre dispersion; optical frequency conversion; quantum noise; quantum optics; N; four-wave-mixing Bragg scattering; liquid nitrogen cooled dispersion-shifted fiber; low-noise quantum frequency translation; photon conversion efficiency; single photons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183094