Observation of Photon Antibunching in Phase-Matched Multiatom Resonance Fluorescence
- 11 August 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 57 (6), 687-690
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.687
Abstract
We report on the observation of photon antibunching in the resonance fluorescence field radiated by a many-atom source. The crucial feature of our experiment is the achievement of a phasematching configuration similar to that of four-wave mixing. The antibunching term results from a constructive interference of contributions from the atoms and thus scales as .
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