title: Controlled single-photon emission from a single trapped two-level atom.
abstract: By illuminating an individual rubidium atom stored in a tight optical tweezer with short resonant light pulses, we created an efficient triggered source of single photons with a well-defined polarization. The measured intensity correlation of the emitted light pulses exhibits almost perfect antibunching. Such a source of high-rate, fully controlled single-photon pulses has many potential applications for quantum information processing.
authors: Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique (UMR 8501), Bâtiment 503, Centre Universitaire, 91403 Orsay, France.
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