Controlled hole burning for a cavity field with a single atom. (4th May 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liu, Pu; Shen, Lituo; Yang, Zhenbiao
• Is Part Of: Laser physics letters. Volume 15:Number 6(2018:Jun.)
• Publication Date: 2018-05-04
• Subjects: dispersive interaction -- controlled hole burning -- classical driving -- cavity field; Lasers -- Periodicals; Physics -- Periodicals; 621.366
• DOI: 10.1088/1612-202X/aab81e
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1612-2011

Abstract

Abstract: We present a simple method of realizing controlled hole burning for a cavity mode in Fock space by using a single two-level atom. In the scheme, the atom is driven by a classical field and dispersively interacts with the cavity mode. Due to the photon number-dependent atomic transition frequency shift, the atom is excited only for a specific Fock state. As a result, the detection of the atom remaining in the ground state projects the cavity to the state with a desired hole in Fock space. An important feature of the scheme is that multiple holes can be burnt at the same time with a single atom driven by a pulse composed of multiple frequency components.