Fast Excitation and Photon Emission of a Single-Atom-Cavity System

@article{citeulike:3575025, abstract = {We report on the fast excitation of a single atom coupled to an optical cavity using laser pulses that are much shorter than all other relevant processes. This creates a single photon source combining the conceptual simplicity of experiments on free-space atoms with the efficiency and directionality of sources based on cavity quantum electrodynamics. The cavity frequency further constitutes a parameter to design the emitted single-photon wave packets, for example, in a superposition of two tunable frequencies.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Bochmann, J. and Muecke, M. and Langfahl-Klabes, G. and Erbel, C. and Weber, B. and Specht, H. P. and Moehring, D. L. and Rempe, G.}, citeulike-article-id = {3575025}, eprint = {0806.2600}, month = {Jun}, posted-at = {2008-11-18 17:26:42}, priority = {2}, title = {Fast Excitation and Photon Emission of a Single-Atom-Cavity System}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2600}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3575025 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3575025 N2 - We report on the fast excitation of a single atom coupled to an optical cavity using laser pulses that are much shorter than all other relevant processes. This creates a single photon source combining the conceptual simplicity of experiments on free-space atoms with the efficiency and directionality of sources based on cavity quantum electrodynamics. The cavity frequency further constitutes a parameter to design the emitted single-photon wave packets, for example, in a superposition of two tunable frequencies. TI - Fast Excitation and Photon Emission of a Single-Atom-Cavity System AU - Bochmann, J AU - Muecke, M AU - Langfahl-Klabes, G AU - Erbel, C AU - Weber, B AU - Specht, HP AU - Moehring, DL AU - Rempe, G PY - 2008/Jun/16/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2600 ER -