Photon Statistics of a Non-Stationary Periodically Driven Single-Photon Source

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2004-06-05

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0406034v1

New Journal of Physics 6, 86 (2004)

Physics

Quantum Physics

9 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/6/1/086

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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