Partially Nondestructive Continuous Detection of Individual Traveling Optical Photons
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Hosseini, Mahdi
Duan, Yiheng
Chen, Wenlan
Beck, Kristin Marie
Vuletic, Vladan
Date Issued
January 2016
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Hosseini, Mahdi, Kristin M. Beck, Yiheng Duan, Wenlan Chen, and Vladan Vuletic. "Partially Nondestructive Continuous Detection of Individual Traveling Optical Photons." Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033602 (January 2016). © 2016 American Physical Society
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Abstract
We report the continuous and partially nondestructive measurement of optical photons. For a weak light pulse traveling through a slow-light optical medium (signal), the associated atomic-excitation component is detected by another light beam (probe) with the aid of an optical cavity. We observe strong correlations of g[(2) over sp] = 4.4(5) between the transmitted signal and probe photons. The observed (intrinsic) conditional nondestructive quantum efficiency ranges between 13% and 1% (65% and 5%) for a signal transmission range of 2% to 35%, at a typical time resolution of 2.5 μs. The maximal observed (intrinsic) device nondestructive quantum efficiency, defined as the product of the conditional nondestructive quantum efficiency and the signal transmission, is 0.5% (2.4%). The normalized cross-correlation function violates the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, confirming the nonclassical character of the correlations.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
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