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

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

doi:10.1126/science.1113394

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

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

Authors

B. Darquie

Professor Matthew Jones m.p.a.jones@durham.ac.uk
Professor

J. Dingjan

J. Beugnon

S. Bergamini

Y. Sortais

G. Messin

A. Browaeys

P. Grangier

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.

Citation

Darquie, B., Jones, M., Dingjan, J., Beugnon, J., Bergamini, S., Sortais, Y., …Grangier, P. (2005). Controlled single photon emission from a single trapped two-level atom. Science, 309(5733), 454-456. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1113394

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	2005-07
Deposit Date	Dec 18, 2006
Journal	Science
Print ISSN	0036-8075
Electronic ISSN	1095-9203
Publisher	American Association for the Advancement of Science
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	309
Issue	5733
Pages	454-456
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1113394
Keywords	Deterministic quantum teleportation, Entanglement, Generation, Cavity.