Changing the Color of Single Photons (IMAGE)

University of Waterloo

Changing the Color of Single Photons

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This is an artist's impression of quantum frequency conversion in a diamond quantum memory.

Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) have, for the first time, converted the colour and bandwidth of ultrafast single photons using a room-temperature quantum memory in diamond.

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Dr. Khabat Heshami, National Research Council Canada

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