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Nature Physics 3, 219 - 220 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphys573

Cavity QED: Photons in single file

Alex Kuzmich1 & T. A. Brian Kennedy1

  1. Alex Kuzmich and T. A. Brian Kennedy are at the School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 837 State Street, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA. e-mail: alex.kuzmich@physics.gatech.edu; e-mail: brian.kennedy@physics.gatech.edu


A 'single-photon server', producing a steady stream of single-photon pulses for up to half a minute, has been created by confining, cooling and controlling a neutral atom inside a tiny optical cavity.

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