Ultrafast all-optical switching of telecom single photons

Ujaan Purakayastha, Colin P. Lualdi, Paul G. Kwiat

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Abstract

Low-loss, ultrafast photon routing is an enabling technology for optical quantum information processing. We demonstrate a 20 GHz, all-optical switch for 1590-nm photons from a heralded single-photon source, achieving a signal-to-noise ratio of 140:1.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article numberFTu6B.1
JournalOptics InfoBase Conference Papers
StatePublished - 2022
EventFrontiers in Optics, FiO 2022 - Rochester, United States
Duration: Oct 17 2022Oct 20 2022

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Mechanics of Materials

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