Electro-Optic Modulation of Single Photons

Pavel Kolchin, Chinmay Belthangady, Shengwang Du, G. Y. Yin, Stephen Harris

Physical Review Letters · 2008 · 221 citations · 27 references

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Abstract

We use the Stokes photon of a biphoton pair to set the time origin for electro-optic modulation of the wave function of the anti-Stokes photon thereby allowing arbitrary phase and amplitude modulation. We demonstrate conditional single-photon wave functions composed of several pulses, or instead, having Gaussian or exponential shapes.

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