Photon-Number Selective Group Delay in Cavity Induced Transparency

2009/10/31 by Gor Nikoghosyan, Michael Fleischhauer · 1 citation
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic physics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Coupling (piping) #Detector #Electromagnetically induced transparency #Group velocity #Materials science #Optics #Photon #Physics #Pulse (music) #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum optics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.105.013601

5 pages, 2 figures. revised version

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Abstract

We show that the group velocity of a probe pulse in an ensemble of Λ-type atoms driven by a quantized cavity mode depends on the quantum state-of-the input probe pulse. In the strong-coupling regime of the atom-cavity system the probe group delay is photon-number selective. This can be used to spatially separate the single photon from higher photon-number components of a few-photon probe pulse and thus create a deterministic single-photon source.

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