Continuous generation of single photons with controlled waveform in an ion-trap cavity system

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7012, 2004, Pages 1075-1078

  Keller, Matthias ^a   Lange, Birgit ^a   Hayasaka, Kazuhiro ^b   Lange, Wolfgang ^a   Walther, Herbert ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE; IONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CONTINUOUS GENERATION; CONTROLLED WAVEFORMS; QUANTUM STATES; RADIATION FIELDS;

PHOTONS;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; DYNAMICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION FIELD; SEMICONDUCTOR; WAVEFORM;

EID: 8144225878     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02961     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Bennett, C. H. & Brassard, G. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Computers, Systems, and Signal Processing (Bangalore, India) 175-179 (IEEE, New York, 1984).
2. Knill, E., Laflamme, R. & Milburn, G. J. A scheme for efficient quantum computation with linear optics. Nature 409, 46-52 (2001).
3. Diedrich, F. & Walther, H. Nonclassical radiation of a single stored ion. Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 203-206 (1987).
4. Basché, T., Moerner, W. E., Orrit, M. & Talon, H. Photon antibunching in the fluorescence of a single dye molecule trapped in a solid. Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 1516-1519 (1992).
5. Lounis, B. & Moerner, W. E. Single photons on demand from a single molecule at room temperature. Nature 407, 491-93 (2000).
6. Kurtsiefer, C., Mayer, S., Zarda, P. & Weinfurter, H. Stable solid-state source of single photons. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 290-293 (2000).
7. Brouri, R., Beveratos, A., Poizat, J.-P. & Grangier, P. Photon antibunching in the fluorescence of individual color centers in diamond. Opt. Lett. 25, 1294-1296 (2000).
8. Michler, P. et al. A quantum dot single-photon turnstile device, Science 290, 2282-2286 (2000).
9. Santori, C., Pelton, M., Solomon, G., Dale, Y. & Yamamoto, Y. Triggered single photons from a quantum dot. Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1502-1505 (2001).
10. Moreau, E. et al. Single-mode solid-state single photon source based on isolated quantum dots in pillar microcavities. Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 2865-2867 (2001).
11. Yuan, Z. L. et al. Electrically driven single-photon source. Science 295, 102-105 (2002).
12. Santori, C., Fattal, D., Vučković, J., Solomon, G. S. & Yamamoto, Y. Indistinguishable photons from a single-photon device. Nature 419, 594-597 (2002).
13. Cirac, J. L., Zoller, P., Kimble, H. J. & Mabuchi, H. Quantum state transfer and entanglement distribution among distant nodes in a quantum network. Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 3221-3224 (1997).
14. Kuhn, A., Hennrich, M. & Rempe, G. Deterministic single-photon source for distributed quantum networking. Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 67901 (2002).
15. McKeever, J. et al. Deterministic generation of single photons from one atom trapped in a cavity. Science 303, 1992-1994 (2004).
16. Brattke, S., Varcoe, B. T. H. & Walther, H. Generation of photon number states on demand via cavity quantum electrodynamics. Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 3534-3537 (2001).
17. Law, C. K. & Kimble, H. J. Deterministic generation of a bit-stream of single-photon pulses. J. Mod. Opt. 44, 2067-2074 (1997).
18. Duan, L.-M., Kuzmich, A. & Kimble, H. J. Cavity QED and quanta m-information processing with "hot" trapped atoms. Phys. Rev. A. 67, 032305 (2003).
19. Pellizzari, T., Gardiner, S. A., Cirac, J, I. & Zoller, P. Decoherence, continuous observation, and quantum computing - a cavity QED model. Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3788-3791 (1995).
20. Beige, A., Braun, D., Tregenna, B. & Knight, P. L. Quantum computing using dissipation to remain in a decoherence-free subspace. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 1762-1765 (2000).
21. Zheng, S. B, & Guo, G. C. Efficient scheme for two-atom entanglement and quantum information processing in cavity QED. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2392-2395 (2000).
22. Guthöhrlein, G. R., Keller, M., Hayasaka, K., Lange, W. & Walther, H. A single ion as a nanoscopic probe of an optical field. Nature 414, 49-51 (2001).
23. Keller, M., Lange, B., Hayasaka, K., Lange, W. & Walther, H. Deterministic coupling of single ions to an optical cavity. Appl Phys. B 176, 125-128 (2003).
24. Keller, M., Lange, B., Hayasaka, K., Lange, W. & Walther, H. A calcium ion in a cavity as a controlled single-photon source. New J. Phys. 6, 95 (2004); available at http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/13672630/6/1/095.
25. Brendel, J., Tittel, W., Zbinden, H. & Gisin, N. Pulsed energy-time entangled twin-photon source for quantum communication. Phys. Rev. Lett, 82, 2594-2597 (1999).