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Single Photon Characterisation

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Narrowband Single Photons for Light-Matter Interfaces

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Single photons are essential building blocks for quantum information and quantum communication, due to their high mobility, simple encoding and low interaction with the environment. In order to compare individual sources from the same or different architectures, we defined multiple metrics to characterise the single photons in Sect. 2.4. It is important for the community in this research field, to agree on a common ground for the measurement techniques to derive these numbers in order to make their comparison easy and meaningful. The particular features can be divided in two categories: classical and quantum characteristics.

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    Unfortunately, private communication with the authors of Ref. [13] could not fully explain the origin of this factor.

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Rambach, M. (2018). Single Photon Characterisation. In: Narrowband Single Photons for Light-Matter Interfaces. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97154-4_4

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