On improving single photon sources via linear optics and photodetection

Details On improving single photon sources via linear optics and photodetection On improving single photon sources via linear optics and photodetection

2003-09-19

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0309140v1

Phys. Rev. A 69, 031806(R) (2004)

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.69.031806

In practice, single photons are generated as a mixture of vacuum with a single photon with weights 1-p and p, respectively; here we are concerned with increasing p by directing multiple copies of the single photon-vacuum mixture into a linear optic device and applying photodetection on some outputs to conditionally prepare single photon states with larger p. We prove that it is impossible, under certain conditions, to increase p via linear optics and conditional preparation based on photodetection, and we also establish a class of photodetection events for which p can be improved. In addition we prove that it is not possible to obtain perfect (p=1) single photon states via this method from imperfect (p<1) inputs.

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