Bandwidth manipulation of quantum light by an electro-optic time lens

By employing electro-optic phase modulation, a time-lens imaging system is demonstrated for single-photon pulses. Such a system achieves wavelength-preserving sixfold bandwidth compression of single-photon states in the near-infrared spectral region.

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