Controlled Single-Photon Emission from a Single Trapped Two-Level Atom

Benoit Darquié; Matthew Jones; Jos Dingjan; Jerome Beugnon; Silvia Bergamini; Yvan Sortais; Gaetan Messin; Antoine Browaeys; Philippe Grangier

doi:10.1126/science.1113394

Controlled Single-Photon Emission from a Single Trapped Two-Level Atom

Quantum Physics 2016-08-16 v1

Authors: Benoit Darquié , Matthew Jones , Jos Dingjan , Jerome Beugnon , Silvia Bergamini , Yvan Sortais , Gaetan Messin , Antoine Browaeys , Philippe Grangier

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Abstract

By illuminating an individual rubidium atom stored in a tight optical tweezer with short resonant light pulses, we create an efficient triggered source of single photons with a well-defined polarization. The measured intensity correlation of the emitted light pulses exhibits almost perfect antibunching. Such a source of high rate, fully controlled single photon pulses has many potential applications for quantum information processing.

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single-photon sources quantum optics spontaneous emission photon pair generation

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0610087,
  title  = {Controlled Single-Photon Emission from a Single Trapped Two-Level Atom},
  author = {Benoit Darquié and Matthew Jones and Jos Dingjan and Jerome Beugnon and Silvia Bergamini and Yvan Sortais and Gaetan Messin and Antoine Browaeys and Philippe Grangier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0610087},
  year   = {2016}
}

Controlled Single-Photon Emission from a Single Trapped Two-Level Atom

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