Emergence of super-Poissonian light from indistinguishable single-photon emitters

Photon indistinguishability constitutes an essential resource in modern physics. At the scale of individual atoms and photons, it is a diverse concept that causes different coherent phenomena. We present the experimental characterization of indistinguishable photons detected in a single mode from a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Optica 2023-04, Vol.10 (4), p.456
Hauptverfasser: Kovalenko, A., Babjak, D., Lešundák, A., Podhora, L., Lachman, L., Obšil, P., Pham, T., Číp, O., Filip, R., Slodička, L.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Photon indistinguishability constitutes an essential resource in modern physics. At the scale of individual atoms and photons, it is a diverse concept that causes different coherent phenomena. We present the experimental characterization of indistinguishable photons detected in a single mode from a finite and stable ensemble of single-photon emitters: trapped ions. We conclusively observe an increase of second-order correlation and super-Poissonian statistics of these photons with a number of contributing phase-incoherent independent emissions from the atoms, ranging from a single to up to several hundred. This optical emission regime provides insight into the emergence of super-Poissonian light at the atomic scale by photon indistinguishability. It constitutes a unique toolbox for its generation and control at the most microscopic level.
ISSN:2334-2536
2334-2536
DOI:10.1364/OPTICA.474897