Fiber-pigtailed optical tweezer for single-atom trapping and single-photon generation
Quantum Physics
2013-10-15 v1 Atomic Physics
Optics
Abstract
We demonstrate a miniature, fiber-coupled optical tweezer to trap a single atom. The same fiber is used to trap a single atom and to read out its fluorescence. To obtain a low background level, the tweezer light is chopped, and we measure the influence of the chopping frequency on the atom's lifetime. We use the single atom as a single-photon source at 780 nm and measure the second-order correlation function of the emitted photons. Because of its miniature, robust, fiber-pigtailed design, this tweezer can be implemented in a broad range of experiments where single atoms are used as a resource.
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@article{arxiv.1310.3782,
title = {Fiber-pigtailed optical tweezer for single-atom trapping and single-photon generation},
author = {Sébastien Garcia and Dominik Maxein and Leander Hohmann and Jakob Reichel and Romain Long},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.3782},
year = {2013}
}
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