Controlled single-photon emission from a single trapped two-level atom

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作者
Darquié, B [1 ]
Jones, MPA [1 ]
Dingjan, J [1 ]
Beugnon, J [1 ]
Bergamini, S [1 ]
Sortais, Y [1 ]
Messin, G [1 ]
Browaeys, A [1 ]
Grangier, P [1 ]
机构
[1] Ctr Univ Orsay, Inst Opt, Lab Charles Fabry, UMR 8501, F-91403 Orsay, France
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10.1126/science.1113394
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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];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
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 tight pulses exhibits almost perfect antibunching. Such a source of high-rate, fully controlled single-photon pulses has many potential applications for quantum information processing.
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