Directional emission of single photons from small atomic samples
Quantum Physics
2015-06-11 v1 Atomic Physics
Abstract
We provide a formalism to describe deterministic emission of single photons with tailored spatial and temporal profiles from a regular array of multi-level atoms. We assume that a single collective excitation is initially shared by all the atoms in a metastable atomic state, and that this state is coupled by a classical laser field to an optically excited state which rapidly decays to the ground atomic state. Our model accounts for the different field polarization components via re-absorption and emission of light by the Zeeman manifold of optically excited states.
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@article{arxiv.1208.5633,
title = {Directional emission of single photons from small atomic samples},
author = {Yevhen Miroshnychenko and Uffe V. Poulsen and Klaus Mølmer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.5633},
year = {2015}
}