Deterministic Generation of Single Photons from One Atom Trapped in a Cavity

J. McKeever; A. Boca; A. D. Boozer; R. Miller; J. R. Buck; A. Kuzmich; H. J. Kimble

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Deterministic Generation of Single Photons from One Atom Trapped in a Cavity

J. McKeever, A. Boca, A. D. Boozer, R. Miller, J. R. Buck, A. Kuzmich, H. J. Kimble

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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 × 10⁴ 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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1992-1994
Number of pages	3
Journal	Science
Volume	303
Issue number	5666
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1095232
State	Published - Mar 26 2004
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