Single-photon source with ultranarrow linewidth manipulated by coherent fields

Abstract

Recent works [PhysRevLett.125.170402 (2020) and PhysRevLett.125.043603 (2020)] verify that the perfect single-photon character is a global property of resonance fluorescence including all the spectral components, and then the absence of some components can spoil the single-photon character, which considerably limits the application of filtering scheme to obtain single-photon source (SPS) with subnatural linewidth. Here, we note that the linewidth of fluorescent photon is not always limited by the intrinsic linewidth of the emitter, and provide a scheme where the linewidth of the fluorescent single photon can be much smaller than the natural linewidth of emitter by manipulating external coherent fields. By simulating the response of the filter or detection setup with a bandwidth approaching and even much smaller than the natural linewidth of emitter, the realization of ultranarrow SPS can be confirmed. Besides, we demonstrate that this scheme of ultranarrow SPS can be implemented based on various real physical platforms.

Asymmetric spectral features of a three level /\ system coupled to a spherical silver metal nanoparticle

“…But with internal coupling, the transition probabilities of the dressed states becomes the function of field strengths and LDOS structure, leading to narrowing linewidths with the increasing field strengths. This shows how the engineered reservoir can be used to achieve narrow or ultra-narrow linewidths with the potential for application in controllable single photon sources [20,21].…”