Selective filtering of multi-photon events from a single-photon emitter

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22378v1
• Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:47:40 GMT
• Title: Selective filtering of multi-photon events from a single-photon emitter
• Authors: Friedrich Sbresny, Carolin Calcagno, Sang Kyu Kim, Katarina Boos, William Rauhaus, Frederik Bopp, Hubert Riedl, Jonathan J. Finley, Eduardo Zubizarreta Casalengua, Kai Müller,
• Abstract summary: Single-photon purity is one of the most important metrics of many quantum states of light.<n>For applications in photonic quantum technologies, a minimization of the multi-photon error rate is required because of its error-introducing nature.<n>Here, we demonstrate that even this fundamental limit to the single-photon purity can be overcome due to the distinct spectro-temporal properties of the individual photons forming multi-photon errors.
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• Abstract: Single-photon purity is one of the most important key metrics of many quantum states of light. For applications in photonic quantum technologies, e.g. quantum communication and linear optical quantum computing, a minimization of the multi-photon error rate is required because of its error-introducing nature. Ultimately, the purity of state-of-the-art single-photon sources was found to be limited by spontaneous emission and subsequent reexcitation during the interaction with the driving field. Here, we demonstrate that even this fundamental limit to the single-photon purity can be overcome due to the distinct spectro-temporal properties of the individual photons forming multi-photon errors. For driving pulses shorter than the emitter lifetime, we find that photons emitted during the pulse exhibit a significantly broader spectral shape than the emitter's natural linewidth. Thus, we can selectively filter out the majority of this instantaneously emitted photon by employing narrowband spectral filters which reduces the measured degree of second-order coherence at zero time delay by almost one order of magnitude. This enables a significant suppression of the multi-photon error rate without detrimental effects on the desired single-photon emission.

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