Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pinotsi, D
• Imamoglu, A

Titel

Single photon absorption by a single quantum emitter

Ist Teil von

• Physical review letters, 2008-03, Vol.100 (9), p.093603-093603, Article 093603

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

American Physical Society Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We show that a three-level lambda quantum emitter with equal spontaneous emission rates on both optically active transitions can absorb an incident single-photon pulse with a probability approaching unity, provided that the focused light profile matches that of the emitter dipole emission. Even with realistic focusing geometries, our results could find applications in long-distance entanglement of spin qubits.