arXiv:1803.09274

Quantum nonlinear four-wave mixing with a single atom in an optical cavity

Haytham Chibani

Published Mar 25, 2018• 0 citations

Abstract

Single atom cavity quantum electrodynamics grants access to nonclassical photon statistics, while electromagnetically induced transparency exhibits a dark state of long coherence time. The combination of the two produces a new light field via four-wave mixing that shows long-lived quantum statistics. We observe the new field in the emission from the cavity as a beat with the probe light that together with the control beam and the cavity vacuum is driving the four-wave mixing process. Moreover, the control field allows us to tune the new light field from antibunching to bunching, demonstrating our all-optical control over the photon-pair emission.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.09274

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