Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 067901 (2002) [4 pages]Deterministic Single-Photon Source for Distributed Quantum NetworkingReceived 25 April 2002; published 19 July 2002 A sequence of single photons is emitted on demand from a single three-level atom strongly coupled to a high-finesse optical cavity. The photons are generated by an adiabatically driven stimulated Raman transition between two atomic ground states, with the vacuum field of the cavity stimulating one branch of the transition, and laser pulses deterministically driving the other branch. This process is unitary and therefore intrinsically reversible, which is essential for quantum communication and networking, and the photons should be appropriate for all-optical quantum information processing. © 2002 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.067901
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.067901
PACS:
03.67.Hk, 32.80.Bx, 42.55.Ye, 42.65.Dr
See AlsoComment: H. J. Kimble, Comment on “Deterministic Single-Photon Source for Distributed Quantum Networking”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 249801 (2003). Reply: Axel Kuhn, Markus Hennrich, and Gerhard Rempe, Kuhn, Hennrich, and Rempe Reply:, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 249802 (2003). |
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