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Published September 23, 1991 | public
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Optical bistability and photon statistics in cavity quantum electrodynamics

Abstract

The quantum statistical behavior of a small collection of N two-state atoms strongly coupled to the field of a high-finesse optical cavity is investigated. Input-output characteristics are recorded over the range 3 less-than-or-similar-to N less-than-or-similar-to 65, with bistability observed for N greater-than-or-similar-to 15 intracavity atoms and for a saturation photon number n0 congruent-to 0.8. For weak excitation the transmitted field exhibits photon antibunching as a nonclassical manifestation of state reduction and quantum interference with the magnitude of the nonclassical effects largely independent of N.

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©1991 The American Physical Society. Received 28 June 1991. This work was supported by the NSF (PHY-9014547), the ONR (N00014-90-J-1058), and Venture Research International, and by a Robert A. Millikan Fellowship (G. R.). We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Dr. J. L. Hall and Z. Hu.

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