Wednesday, August 29, 2012

1208.5633 (Yevhen Miroshnychenko et al.)

Directional emission of single photons from small atomic samples    [PDF]

Yevhen Miroshnychenko, Uffe V. Poulsen, Klaus Mølmer
We provide a formalism to describe deterministic emission of single photons with tailored spatial and temporal profiles from a regular array of multi-level atoms. We assume that a single collective excitation is initially shared by all the atoms in a metastable atomic state, and that this state is coupled by a classical laser field to an optically excited state which rapidly decays to the ground atomic state. Our model accounts for the different field polarization components via re-absorption and emission of light by the Zeeman manifold of optically excited states.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5633

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