Abstract
Detecting a single photon without absorbing it is a long-standing challenge in quantum optics. All experiments demonstrating the nondestructive detection of a photon make use of a high quality cavity. We present a cavity-free scheme for nondestructive single-photon detection. By pumping a nonlinear medium we implement an interfield Rabi oscillation which leads to a ∼π phase shift on a weak probe coherent laser field in the presence of a single signal photon without destroying the signal photon. Our cavity-free scheme operates with a fast intrinsic time scale in comparison with similar cavity-based schemes. We implement a full real-space multimode numerical analysis of the interacting photonic modes and confirm the validity of our nondestructive scheme in the multimode case.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 023601 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-5 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 116 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 13 Jan 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Xia, K., Johnsson, M., Knight, P. L., Twamley, J., Physical review letters, 116(2), 023601, 2016. Copyright 2016 by the American Physical Society. The original article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.023601.Fingerprint
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