Authors: A Kuhn M Hennrich T Bondo G Rempe
Publish Date: 2014/04/28
Volume: 69, Issue: 5-6, Pages: 373-377
Abstract
We propose a new method for the generation of single photons Our scheme will lead to the emission of one photon into a single mode of the radiation field in response to a trigger event This photon is emitted from an atom strongly coupled to a highfinesse optical cavity and the trigger is a classical light pulse The device combines cavityQED with an adiabatic transfer technique We simulate this process numerically and show that it is possible to control the temporal behaviour of the photon emission probability by the shape and the detuning of the trigger pulse An extension of the scheme with a reloading mechanism will allow one to emit a bitstream of photons at a given rate
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