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OPTICA
Volume 5, Issue 5, Pages 514-517Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.5.000514
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/L015110/1, EP/N002962/1]
- EPSRC [EP/N002962/1, 1820682] Funding Source: UKRI
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Advanced photonic quantum technology relies on multiphoton interference, which requires bright sources of high-purity photons. Single-photon sources based on nonlinear parametric processes typically require lossy spectral filtering for enhancing the spectral purity of the heralded photons. Here, we implement a novel domain-engineering technique for tailoring the nonlinearity of a parametric down-conversion crystal in order to generate indistinguishable and spectrally pure photons without filtering. We create pairs of independently heralded telecom-wavelength photons with high heralding efficiency (up to 65%) and brightness (4 kHz/mW), and we demonstrate a high lower bound for the indistinguishability (98.7 +/- 0.2%) and spectral purity (90.7 +/- 0.3%) via two-photon interference experiments. Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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