Integrated Telecom Wavelength Heralded Single-Photon Source based on GHz gated detectors
Maria Ana Pereira, Mingsong Wu, Arslan Sajid Raja, Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Hugo Zbinden, Tiff Brydges, Rob Thew
Published: 2025/9/19
Abstract
We introduce a simple and flexible concept for a heralded -- spectrally pure -- single photon source. The scheme uses a probabilistic photon pair source pumped with a CW laser, whereby a rapid gating InGaAs/InP single photon avalanche diode provides a synchronous clock and temporally resolves, and hence spectrally filters, the heralded photons. We demonstrate the concept by combining this with a narrow-band integrated silicon nitride photon-pair source. This simple architecture is capable of heralding photons with high spectral purity in the telecom band, but could be adapted to other wavelengths and bandwidth regimes.