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TOPICAL REVIEW

Single-photon generation and detection

G S Buller et al 2010 Meas. Sci. Technol. 21 012002 (28pp)   doi: 10.1088/0957-0233/21/1/012002  Help

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G S Buller and R J Collins
School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, David Brewster Building, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
E-mail: g.s.buller@hw.ac.uk

Abstract. The detection and generation of single photons has seen an upsurge in interest in recent years as new scientific fields of research, for example quantum information processing, have been established. This review serves to provide an overview of progress in these areas, describing some of the main candidates for single-photon components for use in emerging fields of research.

Keywords: single-photon sources, single-photon detection

Print publication: Issue 1 (January 2010)
Received 13 July 2009, in final form 21 September 2009
Published 6 November 2009

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