Quantum optical master equations: The one-atom laser

Ginzel, Christian; Briegel, H.-J.; Martini, Ullrich; Englert, Berthold-Georg; Schenzle, A.

doi:10.1103/physreva.48.732

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“…Although a number of theoretical treatments related to a one-atom laser have appeared in the literature [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12], this prior work has not been specific to the parameter range of our experiment as reported in Ref. [1].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…[1], a one-atom laser operated in a regime of strong coupling with (N 0 , n 0 ) 1 will evidence qualitatively different characteristics than those of more familiar conventional lasers. The question then arises as how best to identify a laser in this new regime, with diverse criteria suggested and analyzed in prior work on one-atom lasers [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. The perspective that we adopt here is to trace the lineage of our one-atom laser from a conventional regime continuously into the domain of strong coupling.…”

Section: Comparison Of Semiclassical and Quantum Theories For A Fmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Experimental realization of a one-atom laser in the regime of strong coupling

McKeever

Boca

Boozer

et al. 2003

Nature

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Comparison Of Semiclassical and Quantum Theories For A Fmentioning

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Experimental realization of a one-atom laser in the regime of strong coupling

McKeever

Boca

Boozer

et al. 2003

Nature

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“…An optically driven single atom bound to a resonant cavity is, in some sense, a laser extrapolated to its fundamental, conceptual limit (theoretical descriptions of such devices have existed for a number of years [58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67]). In this analogy, the single atom serves as a gain medium which, as it 'lases', couples photons into the resonant mode of the cavity.…”

Section: The One-atom Lasermentioning

confidence: 99%

Trapped atoms in cavity QED: coupling quantized light and matter

Miller

Northup

Birnbaum

et al. 2005

J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys.

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On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of Albert Einstein's annus mirabilis, we reflect on the development and current state of research in cavity quantum electrodynamics in the optical domain. Cavity QED is a field which undeniably traces its origins to Einstein's seminal work on the statistical theory of light and the nature of its quantized interaction with matter. In this paper, we emphasize the development of techniques for the confinement of atoms strongly coupled to high-finesse resonators and the experiments which these techniques enable.(Some figures in this article are in colour only in the electronic version) From Einstein to cavity QEDIn the years prior to his seminal 1905 papers, Albert Einstein had given much thought to the statistical properties of electromagnetic fields [1], especially with regard to the theory of black-body radiation developed by Max Planck [2]. Einstein realized that the quantization of light-particularly the creation and annihilation of 'light quanta'-is something more fundamental than a tacit consequence of the assumption that the total energy of a black-body is discretely distributed between a set of microstates. Beginning in 1905 with On a heuristic point of view about the creation and conversion of light [3] and in four subsequent papers on quantization [4][5][6][7], he laid the foundations of the 'old quantum theory ' [8], summarized in what is commonly referred to as the 'light quantization hypothesis':. . . the energy of a light ray emitted from a point [is] not continuously distributed over an ever increasing space, but consists of a finite number of energy quanta which are localized at points in space, which move without dividing, and which can only be produced and absorbed as complete units [3].

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“…This is the situation of the one-atom laser. Theoretical studies [87,136,137] eventually confirmed that it is indeed possible to get laser operation with a single atom, as discussed in Sect. 1.4.1.…”

Section: Single-atom Laser Using An Ion Trapmentioning

confidence: 65%

“…It has been theoretically discussed in many papers [81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88][89][90]. The gain medium is a single atom which couples photons into the resonant mode of the optical cavity.…”

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The Deterministic Generation of Photons by Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

Walther

2007

Elements of Quantum Information

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Cavity quantum electrodynamics allows the study of strong coupling between excited atoms and a single mode of a resonant cavity. As a consequence of the strong coupling the cavity field and the atom are entangled. The system thus provides important ingredients necessary for studies of quantum information processing. In addition the periodic exchange of a photon between atom and cavity can be studied. It thus represents the ideal system to investigate the Jaynes-Cummings model and to study a variety of phenomena related to the dynamics of the photon exchange such as collapse and revivals depending on the statistics of the photon field. Furthermore, it is an ideal system to study the quantum measurement process. The system leads to masers and lasers which sustain oscillations with less than one atom on average in the cavity and can, in addition, be used as a deterministic photon source. The setup allows to study in detail the conditions necessary to obtain nonclassical radiation, i.e. radiation with sub-Poissonian photon statistics and even photon number states; this is the case even when Poissonian pumping is used. This paper reviews the work on cavity quantum electrodynamics performed with the one-atom maser and with a single ion trap laser. We will start with the discussion of the one-atom maser. For a more detailed discussion of those experiments see also [1].

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Quantum optical master equations: The one-atom laser

Cited by 99 publications

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Experimental realization of a one-atom laser in the regime of strong coupling

Experimental realization of a one-atom laser in the regime of strong coupling

Trapped atoms in cavity QED: coupling quantized light and matter

The Deterministic Generation of Photons by Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

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