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Muñoz, CSDel Valle, E
Tudela, AG
Müller, K
Lichtmannecker, S
Kaniber, M
Tejedor, C
Finley, JJ
Laussy, FP
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2014-06-01
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Controlling the output of a light emitter is one of the basic tasks in photonics, with landmarks such as the development of the laser and single-photon sources. The ever growing range of quantum applications is making it increasingly important to diversify the available quantum sources. Here, we propose a cavity quantum electrodynamics scheme to realize emitters that release their energy in groups (or 'bundles') of N photons (where N is an integer). Close to 100% of two-photon emission and 90% of three-photon emission is shown to be within reach of state-of-the-art samples. The emission can be tuned with the system parameters so that the device behaves as a laser or as an N-photon gun. Here, we develop the theoretical formalism to characterize such emitters, with the bundle statistics arising as an extension of the fundamental correlation functions of quantum optics. These emitters will be useful for quantum information processing and for medical applications. © 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited.Citation
Sánchez Muñoz, C., del Valle, E., González Tudela, A., Müller, K., Lichtmannecker, S., Kaniber, M., Tejedor, C., Finley, J. J. & F. P. Laussy (2014) Emitters of N-photon bundles, Nature Photonics, 8, pp. 550–555 .Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal
Nature PhotonicsPubMed ID
25013456Additional Links
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.114Type
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This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Nature in Nature Photonics on 01/06/2014, available online: https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.114 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.ISSN
1749-4885EISSN
1749-4893Sponsors
This work was supported by the POLAFLOW European Research Council starting grant, the Marie-Curie project Sensing Quantum Information Correlations and the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MAT2011-22997). C.S.M. acknowledges a Formación de Personal Investigador grant. A.G.T and K.M. acknowledge support from the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation and F.P.L. acknowledges support from a Ramón y Cajal contract.ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1038/nphoton.2014.114
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