Invited review article: Single-photon sources and detectors.

By M. Eisaman, Jingyun Fan, A. Migdall, S. Polyakov. Review of Scientific Instruments, 2011

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We review the current status of single-photon-source and single-photon-detector technologies operating at wavelengths from the ultraviolet to the infrared. We discuss applications of these technologies to quantum communication, a field currently driving much of the development of single-photon sources and detectors.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Instrumentation

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Citations in the corpus

• Silicon Quantum Photonics (2015, background): “other hand, can be obtained directly from atom-like emitters, such as trapped ions or quantum dots [21].”
• Quantum random number generation (2015, background): “Essentially, δ t is limited by the time jitter of the detector (typically in the order of 100 ps), which is normally much smaller than the detector deadtime (typically in the order of 100 ns) 43 .”
• Cavity-based quantum networks with single atoms and optical photons (2014, methodology): “%) and low dark count rates (< 10 Hz) (Eisaman et al., 2011), providing an excellent signal-to-noise ratio even for weak photon streams.”
• Circuit quantum electrodynamics (2020, methodology): “The development of single-photon detectors at infrared, optical and ultraviolet frequencies has been crucial to the field of quantum optics and in fundamental tests of quantum physics (Eisaman et al., 2011; Hadfield, 2009).”
• Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors for quantum information (2020, background): “[25] Eisaman M D, Fan J, Migdall A & Polyakov S V.”
• Quantum random number generators (2016, background): “There are many different technologies that can generate single photons and detect them (Buller and Collins, 2009; Eisaman et al., 2011).”
• Advances in high-dimensional quantum entanglement (2019, background): “A thorough review of single-photon sources, as well as single-photon detectors, can be found here[56].”