Abstract
We present a single-photon source based on cavity-enhanced parametric down-conversion with < 3 MHz linewidth and a brightness of 14000 counts/(s×mW×MHz). Measuring heralded single-photon statistics, we achieved a 100-fold suppression of two-photon events compared to a Poissonian source.
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