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Room temperature stable single-photon source

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We report on the realization of a stable solid state room temperature source for single photons. It is based on the fluorescence of a single nitrogen-vacancy (NV) color center in a diamond nanocrystal. Antibunching has been observed in the fluorescence light under both continuous and pulsed excitation. Our source delivers 2×104 s-1 single-photon pulses at an excitation repetition rate of 10 MHz. The number of two-photon pulses is reduced by a factor of five compared to strongly attenuated coherent sources.

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  1. Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, B.P. 147, 91403 Orsay Cedex, France, , , , , , FR

    A. Beveratos, S. Kühn, R. Brouri, J.-P. Poizat & P. Grangier

  2. Laboratoire de Physique de la matière condensée, École polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France, , , , , , FR

    T. Gacoin

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  1. A. Beveratos
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Received 1st August 2001 and Received in final form 2 October 2001

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Beveratos, A., Kühn, S., Brouri, R. et al. Room temperature stable single-photon source. Eur. Phys. J. D 18, 191–196 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e20020023

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