Deterministic photon-atom and photon-photon interactions based on single-photon Raman interaction

Orel Bechler; Serge Rosenblum; Itay Shomroni; Yulia Lovsky; Gabriel Guendelman; Barak Dayan

doi:10.1117/12.2219759

Deterministic photon-atom and photon-photon interactions based on single-photon Raman interaction

Orel Bechler, Serge Rosenblum, Itay Shomroni, Yulia Lovsky, Gabriel Guendelman, Barak Dayan^*

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Department of Chemical and Biological Physics

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Abstract

We demonstrate a passive scheme for deterministic interactions between a single photon and a single atom. Relying on single-photon Raman interaction (SPRINT), this control-fields free scheme swaps a flying qubit, encoded in the two possible input modes of a photon, with a stationary qubit, encoded in the two ground states of the atom, and can be also harnessed to perform universal quantum gates. Using SPRINT we experimentally demonstrated all-optical switching of single photons by single photons, and deterministic extraction of a single photon from an optical pulse. Applicable to any atom-like Lambda system, SPRINT provides a versatile building block for scalable quantum networks based on completely passive nodes interconnected and activated solely by single photons.

Original language	English
Article number	972706
Number of pages	7
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	9727
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219759
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	SPIE LASE: Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XVIII - San Francisco, California, United States, San Francisco, United States Duration: 15 Feb 2016 → 18 Feb 2016

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