In the process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion a signal and an idler photon are created simultaneously. By use of the photoelectric detection of the signal photon as a gate, a good approximation to the ideal localized one-photon state can be achieved. This has been confirmed by direct photon-counting measurements.
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Hong et al. (1986) studied this question.
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