Photon statistics of a non-stationary periodically driven single-photon source

2004/06/05 by M. Hennrich, M Hennrich, T. Legero +5 · 2 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Random lasers and scattering media #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/6/1/086

published as New Journal of Physics 6, 86 (2004) · 9 pages, 5 figures

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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 at a time. 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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