Published March 26, 2004
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Deterministic Generation of Single Photons from One Atom Trapped in a Cavity
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Abstract
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 profile 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 × 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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© 2004 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Received 31 December 2003; accepted 18 February 2004; Published online 26 February 2004. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of K. M. Birnbaum, S. J. van Enk, H.-C. Nägerl, D. M. Stamper- Kurn, D. W. Vernooy, and J. Ye. This work was supported by the Caltech MURI Center for Quantum Networks under U.S. Army Research Office grant DAAD19-00-1-0374, by the NSF, and by the Office of Naval Research.Attached Files
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- DAAD19-00-1-0374
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- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
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