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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 14, Issue 15, Pages 6912-6918Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006912
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We report significant improvements in the retrieval efficiency of a single excitation stored in an atomic ensemble and in the subsequent generation of strongly correlated pairs of photons. A 50% probability of transforming the stored excitation into one photon in a well-defined spatio-temporal mode at the output of the ensemble is demonstrated. These improvements are illustrated by the generation of high-quality heralded single photons with a suppression of the two-photon component below 1% of the value for a coherent state. A broad characterization of our system is performed for different parameters in order to provide input for the future design of realistic quantum networks. (c) 2006 Optical Society of America.
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