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Single photon source based on transmitters with selectively distributed frequencies

US6868103B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 28, 2001
Grant dateMar 15, 2005
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Expiry dateMay 28, 2021

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01S5/3432
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Apparatus for single photon source based on emitters with frequencies distributed in a chosen manner. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises an opto-electronic component capable or emitting light pulses containing a single photon comprising a resonant optical cavity and a group of photon emitters placed in this optical cavity, a single one of these emitters having an emission frequency equal to approximately the resonant frequency of the cavity characterised in that all emitters have a spectral distribution with a concentration of emitter frequencies at a given frequency, and in that the cavity is made so that its resonant frequency is different from this concentration frequency so that the number of emitters with an emission frequency corresponding to the resonant frequency of the cavity is close to one.

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