Applied Physics: Controlled single-photon emission from a single trapped two-level atom

B. Darquié; M. P.A. Jones; J. Dingjan; J. Beugnon; S. Bergamini; Y. Sortais; G. Messin; A. Browaeys; P. Grangier

doi:10.1126/science.1113394

Applied Physics: Controlled single-photon emission from a single trapped two-level atom

B. Darquié
, M. P.A. Jones
, J. Dingjan
, J. Beugnon
, S. Bergamini
, Y. Sortais
, G. Messin
, A. Browaeys
, P. Grangier

Laboratoire Charles Fabry

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	454-456
Number of pages	3
Journal	Science
Volume	309
Issue number	5733
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1113394
Publication status	Published - 15 Jul 2005
Externally published	Yes

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