Removal of a single photon by adaptive absorption

Calsamiglia, John and Barnett, Stephen M. and Lütkenhaus, Norbert and Suominen, Kalle-Antti (2001) Removal of a single photon by adaptive absorption. Physical Review A, 64 (4). 043814-1. ISSN 1050-2947 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.64.043814)

Abstract

We present a method to remove, using only linear optics, exactly one photon from a field mode. This is achieved by putting the system in contact with an absorbing environment, which is under continuous monitoring. A feedback mechanism then decouples the system from the environment as soon as the first photon is absorbed. We propose a possible scheme to implement this process and provide the theoretical tools to describe it.

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	5858
  Dates:	Date Event 19 September 2001 Published
  Subjects:	Science > Physics > Optics. Light
  Department:	Faculty of Science > Physics
  Depositing user:	Miss Darcy Spiller
  Date deposited:	24 Apr 2008
  Last modified:	11 Nov 2024 08:37
  Related URLs:	http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/quant-ph/pdf/0...
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/5858