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On-demand semiconductor single-photon source with near-unity indistinguishability

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Pulsed resonance fluorescence has been anticipated as the optimum condition for the deterministic generation of high-quality photons with vanishing effects of dephasing and is generated from a single, microcavity-embedded quantum dot under s-shell excitation with 3 ps laser pulses.
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Pulse-excited resonance-fluorescence single-photons are generated on demand from a single quantum dot embedded in a microcavity under s-shell excitation with an ultrafast laser source.

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Emission-Frequency Separated High Quality Single-Photon Sources Enabled by Phonons.

TL;DR: In this article, the single-photon purity of photons emitted from a quantum dot exciton prepared by phonon-assisted off-resonant excitation can be significantly higher in a wide range of parameters than that obtained by resonant preparation for otherwise identical conditions.
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An all-silicon single-photon source by unconventional photon blockade

TL;DR: This work proposes an alternative all-silicon device that employs a different paradigm, namely the interplay between quantum interference and the third-order intrinsic nonlinearity in a system of two coupled optical cavities, and demonstrates a reliable protocol to operate this mechanism under pulsed optical excitation, thus implementing a true single-photon source.
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Cooperative coupling of ultracold atoms and surface plasmons

TL;DR: In this article, the fluorescence of cold atoms to plasmons propagating on a gold surface offers a means of controlling the radiation from optical emitters without the need for a cavity.
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Spectrally reconfigurable quantum emitters enabled by optimized fast modulation.

TL;DR: Using a scattering-matrix formalism, a two-level system, when modulated faster than its optical lifetime, can be treated as a single-photon source with a widely reconfigurable photon spectrum that is amenable to standard numerical optimization techniques as discussed by the authors.
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The quantum internet

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a method for quantum interconnects, which convert quantum states from one physical system to those of another in a reversible manner, allowing the distribution of entanglement across the network and teleportation of quantum states between nodes.
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Measurement of subpicosecond time intervals between two photons by interference.

TL;DR: A fourth-order interference technique has been used to measure the time intervals between two photons, and by implication the length of the photon wave packet, produced in the process of parametric down-conversion.
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Linear optical quantum computing with photonic qubits

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the original theory and its improvements, and a few examples of experimental two-qubit gates are given, and the use of realistic components, the errors they induce in the computation, and how these errors can be corrected is discussed.
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A Quantum Dot Single-Photon Turnstile Device

TL;DR: Using pulsed laser excitation of a single quantum dot, a single- photon turnstile device that generates a train of single-photon pulses was demonstrated.
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Photonic quantum technologies

TL;DR: The first quantum technology that harnesses quantum mechanical effects for its core operation has arrived in the form of commercially available quantum key distribution systems as mentioned in this paper, which achieves enhanced security by encoding information in photons such that an eavesdropper in the system can be detected.
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