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This article has a tag at the bottom that says it's too technical, but with no explanation on the Talk page of what the issues are. This article seems fine to me, even though my knowledge of physics is limited to reading popular science magazines and Isaac Azimov books that explain complicated science in language simple enough for an average high-school student to understand. Furthermore, a single-photon source is in itself a somewhat technical concept.

If something is unclear, it would be nice if people would be more specific and say so on the Talk page. Zyxwv99 (talk) 13:48, 12 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ref 32, 33, and 38 are identical. That should be cleaned up. 2610:20:6FCF:B:0:0:160:9F (talk) 22:03, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In the discussion of the history of single photon sources, the text mentions a cascade source in 1974. Here are some earlier cascade sources that should probably be included: Nature 175, 810(1955), Phys. Letts. 6 171(1963) PRL 28 938(1972) AMPhoton (talk) 22:20, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This reference uses continuous source and single photon counting:

• Brannen, E., Hunt, F. R., Adlington, R. H., & Nicholls, R. W. (1955). Application of Nuclear Coincidence Methods to Atomic Transitions in the Wave-length Range λλ 2000-6000 A. Nature, 175(4462), 810-811.

Based on the title, this work is similar:

• Cristofori, F., Fenici, P., Frigerio, G. E., Molho, N., & Sona, P. G. (1963). Single photon Coincidence Method for the Absolute Measure of the Efficiency of a 1216 Å Detector. Physics Letters, 6(2), 171-172.

This work

• Freedman, S. J., & Clauser, J. F. (1972). Experimental test of local hidden-variable theories. Physical review letters, 28(14), 938.

used the technique developed by Kocher in his PhD thesis:

• Kocher, C. A., & Commins, E. D. (1967). Polarization correlation of photons emitted in an atomic cascade. Physical Review Letters, 18(15), 575.

which is also correlation based.

I'm unsure if these are "single-photon sources". Similarly I question some of the content on the same grounds. Johnjbarton (talk) 22:43, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]