Complete temporal characterization of a single photon

Zhongzhong Qin; Adarsh S Prasad; Travis Brannan; Andrew MacRae; A Lezama; AI Lvovsky

doi:10.1038/lsa.2015.71

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Complete temporal characterization of a single photon

Original Articles

- Complete temporal characterization of a single photon
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 4, Issue 3, (2015)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N1N4, Canada
  2.Quantum Institute for Light and Atoms, State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
  3.Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
  4.Institute of Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of the Republic, J. Herrera y Reissig 565, Montevideo 11300, Uruguay
  5.Russian Quantum Centre, 100 Novaya St., Skolkovo, Moscow 143025, Russia
  6.Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 180 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8, Canada
- Author bio：
  
  AI Lvovsky, Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N1N4, Canada E-mail: LVOV@ucalgary.ca
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2015.71
  CLC：
- Published：2015-09，
  
  Published Online：07 March 2015，
  
  Received：26 September 2014，
  
  Revised：20 February 2015，
  
  Accepted：06 March 2015
- Accepted：
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Qin, Z. Z. et al. Complete temporal characterization of a single photon. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e298 (2015).
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Qin, Z. Z. et al. Complete temporal characterization of a single photon. Light: Science & Applications, 4, e298 (2015). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2015.71.

摘要

Abstract

Precise information about the temporal mode of optical states is crucial for optimizing their i

nteraction efficiency between themselves and/or with matter in various quantum communication devices. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a method of determining both the real and imaginary components of a single photon's temporal density matrix by measuring the autocorrelation function of the photocurrent from a balanced homodyne detector at multiple local oscillator frequencies. We test our method on single photons heralded from biphotons generated

via

four-wave mixing in an atomic vapor and obtain excellent agreement with theoretical predictions for several settings.

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Keywords

autocorrelation matrixpolychromatic optical heterodyne tomographysingle photontemporal mode function

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