Photon Statistics of a Non-Stationary Periodically Driven Single-Photon Source
We investigate the photon statistics of a single-photon source that operates under non-stationary conditions. The photons are emitted by shining a periodic sequence of laser pulses on single atoms falling randomly through a high-finesse optical cavity. Strong antibunching is found in the intensity c...
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| author | Hennrich, M Legero, T Kuhn, A Rempe, G |
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| description | We investigate the photon statistics of a single-photon source that operates under non-stationary conditions. The photons are emitted by shining a periodic sequence of laser pulses on single atoms falling randomly through a high-finesse optical cavity. Strong antibunching is found in the intensity correlation of the emitted light, demonstrating that a single atom emits photons one-by-one. However, the number of atoms interacting with the cavity follows a Poissonian statistics so that, on average, no sub-Poissonian photon statistics is obtained, unless the measurement is conditioned on the presence of single atoms. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:4741a838-15b0-4de8-a4de-c366afb549a82022-03-26T15:18:57ZPhoton Statistics of a Non-Stationary Periodically Driven Single-Photon SourceJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:4741a838-15b0-4de8-a4de-c366afb549a8Symplectic Elements at Oxford2004Hennrich, MLegero, TKuhn, ARempe, GWe investigate the photon statistics of a single-photon source that operates under non-stationary conditions. The photons are emitted by shining a periodic sequence of laser pulses on single atoms falling randomly through a high-finesse optical cavity. Strong antibunching is found in the intensity correlation of the emitted light, demonstrating that a single atom emits photons one-by-one. However, the number of atoms interacting with the cavity follows a Poissonian statistics so that, on average, no sub-Poissonian photon statistics is obtained, unless the measurement is conditioned on the presence of single atoms. |
| spellingShingle | Hennrich, M Legero, T Kuhn, A Rempe, G Photon Statistics of a Non-Stationary Periodically Driven Single-Photon Source |
| title | Photon Statistics of a Non-Stationary Periodically Driven Single-Photon
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| title_full | Photon Statistics of a Non-Stationary Periodically Driven Single-Photon
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| title_fullStr | Photon Statistics of a Non-Stationary Periodically Driven Single-Photon
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| title_full_unstemmed | Photon Statistics of a Non-Stationary Periodically Driven Single-Photon
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| title_short | Photon Statistics of a Non-Stationary Periodically Driven Single-Photon
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| title_sort | photon statistics of a non stationary periodically driven single photon source |
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