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1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Generation of Single-Photon States using a Microcavity

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10650038
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Applied optics/Quantum optical engineering
Research InstitutionThe University of Electro-Communications

Principal Investigator

UJIHARA Kikuo  Faculty of Electro-Communications, The University of Electro-Communications, Professor, 電気通信学部, 教授 (90017351)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 氏原 紀公雄  電気通信大学, 電気通信学部, 教授 (90017351)
Project Period (FY) 1998 – 1999
Keywordssingle photons / planar microcavity / self-regulation / photon statistics / Poisson distribution / Bose-Einstein distribution
Research Abstract

This research project deals with photons, the basic particles of the radiation field, and aims at establishing a technique to generate single photons. This would contribute to the understanding of the non-classical nature of photons and to give a basis of ultimate energy-conserving method of optical communications using single photons. The idea is to generate a single fluorescence photon from an atom or a molecule utilizing the "self-regulation" property of the Rabi dynamics of optically excited atoms or molecules. If this emission process occurs in a free space the emitter is coupled to a number of field modes and one cannot regulate the emission mode. Thus we locate the atom in a microcavity in order to have the emitted photon in a single mode defined by the cavity. Thus we expect to increase the capture probability of the single photon in a manner where the photon is readily utilized.
For this purpose we have constructed a microcavity and examined its performance using rhodamine6G dy … More e as the emitter. The emission was analyzed using a Hanbury-Brown Twiss scheme to determine the quantum-mechanical second order coherence gィイD1(2)ィエD1. Also, theoretical investigation on the emission process in a microcavity is made.
The dye molecules put into the cavity region of the planar microcavity were excited by the second harmonic of a pulsed Nd:YAG laser of pulse width 7ns with repetition frequency 10 pps. Dye concentration from 5x10ィイD1-3ィエD1 to 5x10ィイD1-5ィエD1 mol/l were tested with varying pump power and with the gate time 30ns. High density and/or high pump power resulted in a Poisson distribution of photons, while low density and/or low power resulted in Bose-Einstein distribution. For very low powers single photons were observed with their occurrence probability of the order of 1/100. Further reduction of dye concentration will be required in order to obtain a single-photon state which will result when only one molecule emits on pump pulse.
Theoretical development on three dimensional analysis and investigation on two atom interference have been made. Less

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All Publications (10 results)

  • [Publications] Ho Trung Dung and Kikuo Ujihara: "Three-dimensional nonperturbative analysis of spontaneous emission in a Fabry-Perot microcavity"Phys. Rev.. A60. 4067 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Ho Trung Dung and Kikuo Ujihara: "Analytic solution for retardation in two-atom systems"Phys. Rev.. A59. 2524-2527 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Akiyoshi Takada and Kikuo Ujihara: "spontaneous emission by two atoms in a planar microcavity"Opt. Commun.. 160. 146-161 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Ho Trung Dung and Kikuo Ujihara: "Collective effects in the self-interference of a single photon emitted by two atoms"Phys. Rev. Lett.. 84. 254-256 (2000)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Publications] Ho Trung Dung and Kikuo Ujihara: "Three-dimensional nonperturbative analysis of spontaneous emission in a Fabry-Perot microcabity"Phys. Rev.. A60. 4067 (1999)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Ho Trung Dung and Kikuo Ujihara: "Analytic solution for retardation in two-atom systems"Phys. Rev.. A59. 2524-2527 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Akiyoshi Takada and Kikuo Ujihara: "Spontaneous emission by two atoms in a planar microcavity"Opt. Commun.. 160. 146-161 (1999)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Publications] Ho Trung Dung and Kikuo Ujihara: "Collective effects in the self-interference of a singe photon emitted by two atoms"Phys. Rev. Lett.. 84. 254-256 (2000)

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      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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