Photon correlation versus interference of single-atom fluorescence in a half-cavity.
Photon correlations are investigated for a single laser-excited ion trapped in front of a mirror. Varying the relative distance between the ion and the mirror, photon correlation statistics can be tuned smoothly from an antibunching minimum to a bunchinglike maximum. Our analysis concerns the non-Markovian regime of the ion-mirror interaction and reveals the field establishment in a half-cavity interferometer.
Dubin
François
F
Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Rotter
Daniel
D
Mukherjee
Manas
M
Russo
Carlos
C
Eschner
Jürgen
J
Blatt
Rainer
R