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Towards efficient quantum sources

Nature Photonics volume 4, pages 132–134 (2010)Cite this article

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On-demand single-photon sources with high efficiency are required to realize many of the applications of quantum optics. By exploiting photonic mode transformation in a tapered nanowire, researchers have created a source that has an unprecedented extraction efficiency over an extremely broad spectral range.

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Figure 1: Comparison of efficient single-photon sources based on micropillars and photonic nanowires.

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  1. Stefan Strauf is at the Physics and Engineering Physics Department at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, USA. strauf@stevens.edu,

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Strauf, S. Towards efficient quantum sources. Nature Photon 4, 132–134 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.11

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