Single-Photon Distillation via a Photonic Parity Measurement Using Cavity QED

Abstract

Single photons with tailored temporal profiles are a vital resource for future quantum networks. Here we distill them out of custom-shaped laser pulses that reflect from a single atom strongly coupled to an optical resonator. A subsequent measurement on the atom is employed to herald a successful distillation. Out of vacuum-dominated light pulses, we create single photons with fidelity $66(1)\%$, two-and-more-photon suppression $95.5(6)\%$, and a Wigner function with negative value $-0.125(6)$. Our scheme applied to state-of-the-art fiber resonators could boost the single-photon fidelity to up to $96\%$.

8 pages, 7 figures (including Supplemental Material)

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