Single-photon sources. Review. Part 1

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The review discusses various ways to create single-photon sources (SPS). The task of generating single photons can be solved in various ways, and at the moment there is no one among them that would be significantly preferable. An extensive list of literature makes it possible to analyze the prospects for the development of single-photon sources.

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Vladimir G. Krishtop

Institute of Microelectronics Technology and High Purity Materials RAS; JSC “InfoTeСS”; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

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ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6063-2657

research fellow, associate professor

Russian Federation, Chernogolovka, Moscow region.; Moscow; Dolgoprudny, Moscow region

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2. Fig.1. The Hanbury Brown and Twiss scheme for confirming photon singleness of the source [4]

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3. Fig. 2. The second-order autocorrelation function g(2)(τ) for a true single-photon source operating in pulsed mode. The distance between the peaks corresponds to the pulse repetition period. The dip in the middle shows that only one detector is triggered at each pulse

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4. Fig.3. A coherent source (attenuated laser), a single-photon source, and a source with bunching of photons (Delmic Blog)

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5. Fig. 4. For a laser attenuated to an intensity of 0.2 photons per pulse, most of the pulses turn out to be “empty”, and on average only about one in five pulses contain a photon. But at the same time, there is inevitably a certain fraction of pulses that contain more than one photon, and it is impossible to get rid of them

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6. Fig. 5. Ion traps [47]: Quadrupole ion trap; Linear ion trap; Toroidal ion trap; Cylindrical ion trap; Rectilinear ion trap; Toroidal ion trap with cylindrical electrodes

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7. Fig.6. A single atom in a resonator (nature.com) and single atoms in power traps (Max Planck Institute, www.mpq.mpg.de)

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8. Fig. 7. Experiments with a rubidium atom in a resonator [64]

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