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Cavity quantum electrodynamics

A bundle of photons, please

Nature Photonics volume 8, pages 500–501 (2014)Cite this article

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A two-level system in an optical cavity pumped by an external laser can be coaxed to emit light bursts of exactly N photons at a time.

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Figure 1: Cycles of an N-photon-bundle emitter.

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Strekalov, D. A bundle of photons, please. Nature Photon 8, 500–501 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.144

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