Single-Photon Generation from Stored Excitation in an Atomic Ensemble

Abstract

Single photons are generated from an ensemble of cold Cs atoms via the protocol of Duan et al. [Nature \textbf{414}, 413 (2001)]. Conditioned upon an initial detection from field 1 at 852 nm, a photon in field 2 at 894 nm is produced in a controlled fashion from excitation stored within the atomic ensemble. The single-quantum character of the field 2 is demonstrated by the violation of a Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, namely $w(1_2,1_2|1_1)=0.24\pm 0.05\ngeqq 1$, where $w(1_2,1_2|1_1)$ describes detection of two events $(1_2,1_2)$ conditioned upon an initial detection $1_1$, with $w\to 0$ for single photons.

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