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View SchemaPhoton Statistics of a Non-Stationary Periodically Driven Single-Photon Source
| Authors | M. Hennrich, T. Legero, A. Kuhn, G. Rempe |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0406034 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0406034 |
| DOI | 10.1088/1367-2630/6/1/086 |
| Journal | New Journal of Physics 6, 86 (2004) |
Abstract
We investigate the photon statistics of a single-photon source that operates under non-stationary conditions. The photons are emitted by shining a periodic sequence of laser pulses on single atoms falling randomly through a high-finesse optical cavity. Strong antibunching is found in the intensity correlation of the emitted light, demonstrating that a single atom emits photons one-by-one. However, the number of atoms interacting with the cavity follows a Poissonian statistics so that, on average, no sub-Poissonian photon statistics is obtained, unless the measurement is conditioned on the presence of single atoms.
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