Monday, March 19, 2012

1007.3273 (D. Witthaut et al.)

Photon sorters and QND detectors using single photon emitters    [PDF]

D. Witthaut, M. D. Lukin, A. S. Sørensen
We discuss a new method for realizing number-resolving and non-demolition photo detectors by strong coupling of light to individual single photon emitters, which act as strong optical non-linearities. As a specific application we show how these elements can be integrated into an error-proof Bell state analyzer, whose efficiency exceeds the best possible performance with linear optics even for a modest atom-field coupling. The methods are error-proof in the sense that every detection event unambiguously projects the photon state onto a Fock or Bell state.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3273

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