Deterministic generation of single photons from one atom trapped in a cavity

被引：543

作者：

McKeever, J ^{[1
]}

Boca, A ^{[1
]}

Boozer, AD ^{[1
]}

Miller, R ^{[1
]}

Buck, JR ^{[1
]}

Kuzmich, A ^{[1
]}

Kimble, HJ ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] CALTECH, Norman Bridge Lab Phys 12 33, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

来源：

SCIENCE | 2004年 / 303卷 / 5666期

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D O I：

10.1126/science.1095232

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

A single cesium atom trapped within the mode of an optical cavity is used to generate single photons on demand. The photon wave packets are emitted as a Gaussian beam with temporal pro. le and repetition rate controlled by external driving fields. Each generation attempt is inferred to succeed with a probability near unity, whereas the efficiency for creating an unpolarized photon in the total cavity output is 0.69 +/- 0.10, as limited by passive cavity losses. An average of 1.4 x 10(4) photons are produced by each trapped atom. These results constitute an important step in quantum information science, for example, toward the realization of distributed quantum networking.

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页码：1992 / 1994

页数：3

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