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OPTICA
Volume 3, Issue 11, Pages 1279-1284Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.3.001279
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- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (CREST, JST)
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [JP26286068, JP25247068, JP15H03704, JP16H02214, JP16K17772]
- JSPS [JP14J04677]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16K17772, 15H03704, 14J04677, 16H02214, 26286068] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Telecom photonic quantum networks with matter quantum systems enable a rich variety of applications, such as long-distance quantum cryptography and one-way quantum computing. Preparation of a heralded single excitation (HSE) in an atomic ensemble by detecting a telecom wavelength photon having a correlation with the atomic excitation is an important step. Such a system has been demonstrated with a quantum frequency conversion (QFC) to telecom wavelength employing a Rb atomic cloud. However, the limited wavelength selection prevents the next step toward linking various kinds of matter quantum systems through long-distance fiber-based quantum communications. Here we for the first time, demonstrate HSE with a solid-state-based QFC and a detector for a telecom wavelength that will have the great advantage of the utility of mature telecom technologies. We unambiguously show that the demonstrated HSE indicates non-classical statistics by the direct measurement of the autocorrelation function. (C) 2016 Optical Society of America
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