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Resonance fluorescence of a two-level emitter displays persistently anti-bunching irrespective of the excitation intensity, but inherits the driving laser's linewidth under weak monochromatic excitation. These properties are commonly…
Resonance fluorescence from a coherently driven two-level emitter is a minimal quantum optical field that combines phase coherence with single-photon-level nonlinearity. Here we show that it can be engineered, using only passive linear…
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