2008/06/24 by Kunihiro Kojima, Akihisa Tomita
Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Algorithm #Arrival time #Computer science #Detector #Engineering #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Optics #Optoelectronics #Phase (matter) #Photodetector #Photon #Physics #Process (computing) #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum mechanics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #SIGNAL (programming language) #State (computer science) #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1364/josab.26.000836
14 pages, 11 figures, submitted to Physical Review A
arxiv created 2008/06/24 · openalex publication_date 2009/03/27 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We propose a photon-arrival detector (PAD), which detects the arrival of a signal photon and simultaneously projects the signal input state to a single-photon state, with an atom-cavity system. In this proposal, use of a V-type system as the intracavity atom is discussed for implementing the PAD since V-type systems have been widely studied in the field of solid state, enabling us to miniaturize and integrate that implementation. The performance of the proposed PAD is evaluated for a specific method of the detection process. The proposed PAD is capable of repeating the procedure for detecting the arrival of input photons and it has improved the detection probability so that it has a higher quantum efficiency than those of conventional photodetectors.