Partially Nondestructive Continuous Detection of Individual Traveling Optical Photons
We report the continuous and partially nondestructive measurement of optical photons. For a weak light pulse traveling through a slow-light optical medium (signal), the associated atomic-excitation component is detected by another light beam (probe) with the aid of an optical cavity. We observe stro...
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| author | Hosseini, Mahdi Duan, Yiheng Chen, Wenlan Beck, Kristin Marie Vuletic, Vladan |
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| description | We report the continuous and partially nondestructive measurement of optical photons. For a weak light pulse traveling through a slow-light optical medium (signal), the associated atomic-excitation component is detected by another light beam (probe) with the aid of an optical cavity. We observe strong correlations of g[(2) over sp] = 4.4(5) between the transmitted signal and probe photons. The observed (intrinsic) conditional nondestructive quantum efficiency ranges between 13% and 1% (65% and 5%) for a signal transmission range of 2% to 35%, at a typical time resolution of 2.5 μs. The maximal observed (intrinsic) device nondestructive quantum efficiency, defined as the product of the conditional nondestructive quantum efficiency and the signal transmission, is 0.5% (2.4%). The normalized cross-correlation function violates the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, confirming the nonclassical character of the correlations. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1009702022-10-03T10:34:13Z Partially Nondestructive Continuous Detection of Individual Traveling Optical Photons Hosseini, Mahdi Duan, Yiheng Chen, Wenlan Beck, Kristin Marie Vuletic, Vladan Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics Hosseini, Mahdi Beck, Kristin Marie Duan, Yiheng Chen, Wenlan Vuletic, Vladan We report the continuous and partially nondestructive measurement of optical photons. For a weak light pulse traveling through a slow-light optical medium (signal), the associated atomic-excitation component is detected by another light beam (probe) with the aid of an optical cavity. We observe strong correlations of g[(2) over sp] = 4.4(5) between the transmitted signal and probe photons. The observed (intrinsic) conditional nondestructive quantum efficiency ranges between 13% and 1% (65% and 5%) for a signal transmission range of 2% to 35%, at a typical time resolution of 2.5 μs. The maximal observed (intrinsic) device nondestructive quantum efficiency, defined as the product of the conditional nondestructive quantum efficiency and the signal transmission, is 0.5% (2.4%). The normalized cross-correlation function violates the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, confirming the nonclassical character of the correlations. National Science Foundation (U.S.) United States. Air Force Office of Scientific Research National Science Foundation (U.S.). Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship 2016-01-25T15:10:29Z 2016-01-25T15:10:29Z 2016-01 2015-08 2016-01-19T23:00:03Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0031-9007 1079-7114 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100970 Hosseini, Mahdi, Kristin M. Beck, Yiheng Duan, Wenlan Chen, and Vladan Vuletic. "Partially Nondestructive Continuous Detection of Individual Traveling Optical Photons." Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033602 (January 2016). © 2016 American Physical Society https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4404-6620 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8051-1844 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2486-4164 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-0538 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1521-5365 en http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.033602 Physical Review Letters Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. American Physical Society application/pdf American Physical Society American Physical Society |
| spellingShingle | Hosseini, Mahdi Duan, Yiheng Chen, Wenlan Beck, Kristin Marie Vuletic, Vladan Partially Nondestructive Continuous Detection of Individual Traveling Optical Photons |
| title | Partially Nondestructive Continuous Detection of Individual Traveling Optical Photons |
| title_full | Partially Nondestructive Continuous Detection of Individual Traveling Optical Photons |
| title_fullStr | Partially Nondestructive Continuous Detection of Individual Traveling Optical Photons |
| title_full_unstemmed | Partially Nondestructive Continuous Detection of Individual Traveling Optical Photons |
| title_short | Partially Nondestructive Continuous Detection of Individual Traveling Optical Photons |
| title_sort | partially nondestructive continuous detection of individual traveling optical photons |
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