Quantum transduction of telecommunications band single photons from a quantum dot by frequency upconversion英文文献.pdfVIP

ARTICLES PUBLISHED ONLINE: 3 OCTOBER 2010 | DOI: 10.1038/NPHOTON.2010.221 Quantum transduction of telecommunications- band single photons from a quantum dot by frequency upconversion 1 † 2† 2 2 1 Matthew T. Rakher , Lijun Ma , Oliver Slattery , Xiao Tang * and Kartik Srinivasan * Transducing non-classical states of light from one wavelength to another is required for integrating disparate quantum systems that take advantage of telecommunications-band photons for optical-fibre transmission of quantum information and near-visible, stationary systems for manipulation and storage. In addition, transducing a single-photon source at 1.3 mm to visible wavelengths would be integral to linear optical quantum computation because of near-infrared detection challenges. Recently, transduction at single-photon power levels has been accomplished through frequency upconversion, but it has yet to be demonstrated for a true single-photon source. Here, we transduce triggered single photons from a semiconductor quantum dot at 1.3 mm to 710 nm with 21% (75%) total detection (internal conversion) efficiency. We demonstrate that the upconverted signal maintains the quantum character of the original light, yielding a second-order intensity correlation, g (2)(t), that shows that the optical field is composed of single photons with g (2)(0) 5 0.165 0.5. pconversion is an optical process by which two optical fields by spontaneous parametric downconversion was maintained after combine in a nonlinear medium to generate a third field a