Photon indistinguishability measurements under pulsed and continuous excitation
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Journal Article
Abstract
The indistinguishability of successively generated photons from a single quantum emitter is most commonly measured using two-photon interference at a beam splitter. Whilst for sources excited in the pulsed regime the measured bunching of photons reflects the full wave-packet indistinguishability of the emitted photons, for continuous wave (cw) excitation, the inevitable dependence on detector timing resolution and driving strength obscures the underlying photon interference process. Here we derive a method to extract full photon wave-packet indistinguishability from cw measurements by considering the relevant correlation functions. The equivalence of both methods is experimentally verified through a comparison of cw and pulsed excitation measurements on an archetypal source of photons, a single molecule.
Date Issued
2022-01-18
Date Acceptance
2021-12-23
Citation
Physical Review Research, 2022, 4 (1)
ISSN
2643-1564
Publisher
American Physical Society
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review Research
Volume
4
Issue
1
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2022. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.
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Sponsor
The Royal Society
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant Number
UF160475
EP/R044031/1
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 013037