Single photon Fock state filtering with an artificial atom

De Santis, L.; Antón, C.; Reznychenko, B.; Somaschi, N.; Coppola, G.; Senellart, J.; Gómez, C.; Lemître, A.; Sagnes, I.; White, A. G.; Lanco, L.; Auffeves, A.; Senellart, P.

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Single photon Fock state filtering with an artificial atom

Date

2017

Authors

Abstract

We demonstrate the single-photon Fock state filtering on a QD-micropillar cavity system. By performing resonant-excitation measurements, we observe an optical nonlinearity at the sub-photon scale and 80% single-photons in the reflected light intensity.