Controlled Single-Photon Emission from a Single Trapped Two-Level Atom
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- 15 July 2005
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 309 (5733), 454-456
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1113394
Abstract
By illuminating an individual rubidium atom stored in a tight optical tweezer with short resonant light pulses, we created 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.Keywords
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