Cavity-assisted spontaneous emission as a single-photon source: Pulse shape and efficiency of one-photon Fock-state preparation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Khanbekyan, M ^a   Welsch, D G ^a   Di Fidio, C ^b   Vogel, W ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; BANACH SPACES; ELECTRODYNAMICS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; HILBERT SPACES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; WAVE PACKETS; WAVES;

ABSORBING MEDIUM; AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); ATOM-FIELD INTERACTION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; FOCK STATES; HIGH Q CAVITY; HILBERT; INTRA CAVITY; PULSE SHAPING; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS (QED); QUANTUM STATES; SINGLE PHOTON SOURCES; STATE PREPARATION; TWO LEVEL (RYDBERG) ATOMS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 47749104544     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.013822     Document Type: Article

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