Single Photons Made-to-Measure

Details Single Photons Made-to-Measure Single Photons Made-to-Measure

2009-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/0907.0761v2

New Journal of Physics, 12 (6):063024, 2010

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

We investigate the efficiency of atom-cavity based photon-generation schemes to deliver single photons of arbitrary temporal shape. Our model applies to Raman transitions in three-level atoms with one branch of the transition driven by a laser pulse, and the other coupled to a cavity mode. For any possible shape of the single-photon wavepacket, we derive an unambiguous analytic expression for the shape of the required driving laser pulse. We furthermore discuss the constraints limiting the maximum probability for emitting any desired photon, and use these to estimate upper bounds for the efficiency of the process. The model is not only valid for Vacuum-Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passages (V-STIRAP) in the strong-coupling and bad-cavity regime, but it generally allows controlling the coherence and population flow in any Raman process.

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