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Statistics of discrete photodetection of resonance fluorescence in the Mollow sidebands

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A method is proposed for generating conditional single-photon states with a high degree of purity in a single-mode cavity by successive discrete photodetection. The cavity is pumped by resonance fluorescence emission from a source atom driven by a classical field. The cavity is tuned to a Mollow sideband. A relation between detector parameters is found that makes it possible to interpret the detection of a probe atom in the excited state as unambiguous evidence that a pure single-photon state has been prepared in the cavity. An expression is derived for the prior probability of such an event, and dependence of the one-photon state population of the cavity field on detuning, relaxation rate, and time is examined.

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Original Russian Text © G.P. Miroshnichenko, 2008, published in Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2008, Vol. 134, No. 6, pp. 1115–1124.

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Miroshnichenko, G.P. Statistics of discrete photodetection of resonance fluorescence in the Mollow sidebands. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 107, 952–959 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776108120054

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