Photon Fock State Generation in Photonic Microresonators

• DOI: 10.1364/quantum.2023.qm4a.6
• Publication Date: 2023-09-05T13:59:53Z
• Authors: Germaine Arend; Armin Feist; Guanhao Huang; Yujia Yang; Jan-Wilke Henke; Arslan Sajid Raja; F. Jasmin Kappert; Jiahe Pan; Hugo Lourenco-Mar...; Zheru Qiu; Junqiu Liu; Ofer Kfir; Tobias J. Kippenberg; Claus Ropers

We generate correlated pairs of free electrons and cavity photons by sending an electron beam across a photonic microresonator and filtering temporal coincidences. We further characterize the pairs analogue to a heralded single photon source.