M Hennrich et al 2004 New J. Phys. 6 86 doi:10.1088/1367-2630/6/1/086
Photon statistics of a non-stationary periodically driven single-photon source
Focus on Single Photons on DemandM Hennrich, T Legero, A Kuhn and G Rempe
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We investigate the photon statistics of a single-photon source that operates under non-stationary conditions. The photons are emitted by shining a periodic sequence of laser pulses on single atoms falling randomly through a high-finesse optical cavity. Strong antibunching is found in the intensity correlation of the emitted light, demonstrating that a single atom emits photons one at a time. However, the number of atoms interacting with the cavity follows a Poissonian statistics so that, on average, no sub-Poissonian photon statistics is obtained, unless the measurement is conditioned on the presence of single atoms.
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42.50.Ar Photon statistics and coherence theory
79.60.-i Photoemission and photoelectron spectra
42.72.-g Optical sources and standards
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Issue 1 (July 2004)
Received 18 February 2004
Published 29 July 2004
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Photon statistics of a non-stationary periodically driven single-photon source
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