Integrated single photon sources : development to benchmarking / by Nicola Montaut. Paderborn, 2019
Inhalt
- Summary
- High-efficiency fibre-pigtailed heralded source of single photons
- Introduction
- Foundation
- Nonlinearity in materials
- Lithium niobate waveguides
- Quasi-phasematching
- Spontaneous parametric down conversion
- Characterisation of single photon sources
- Device development
- Plug-and-play device - the design
- Fabrication of titanium indiffused waveguides in lithium niobate
- Periodic poling through domain inversion
- Classical characterisation
- End face coatings
- Fibre pigtailing and packaging
- Quantum characterisation
- Heralding efficiency
- Brightness and non-classicality
- Spectral measurement
- Unheralded g(2)(0)
- Heralded g(2)(0)
- Hong-Ou-Mandel measurement
- Spectral filtering
- Future work
- Conclusion
- Compressive sensing for characterising high-dimensional states
- Introduction
- Basics
- SPDC mode reconstruction
- Spatial reconstruction of SPDC states
- Spatial mode reconstruction using the direct measurement technique
- Spatial mode reconstruction using compressive sensing
- Spatio-spectral mode reconstruction of SPDC states
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Major author contributions