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Published February 27, 2009 | Published + Accepted Version
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Efficient routing of single photons by one atom and a microtoroidal cavity

Abstract

Single photons from a coherent input are efficiently redirected to a separate output by way of a fiber-coupled microtoroidal cavity interacting with individual cesium atoms. By operating in an overcoupled regime for the input-output to a tapered fiber, our system functions as a quantum router with high efficiency for photon sorting. Single photons are reflected and excess photons transmitted, as confirmed by observations of photon antibunching (bunching) for the reflected (transmitted) light. Our photon router is robust against large variations of atomic position and input power, with the observed photon antibunching persisting for intracavity photon number 0.03 ≾ n ≾ 0.7.

Additional Information

© 2009 The American Physical Society. Received 8 October 2008; published 27 February 2009. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of S. Kelber and E. Wilcut-Connolly. This work is supported by the NSF PHY-0652914, by IARPA via ARO, and by NGST. A. S. P. thanks the Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand for support.

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