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Journal Articles Applied Physics Letters Year : 2013

Fiber-pigtailed optical tweezer for single-atom trapping and single-photon generation

Sébastien Garcia
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Jakob Reichel
Romain Long

Abstract

We demonstrate a miniature, fiber-coupled optical tweezer to trap a single atom. The same fiber is used to trap a single atom and to read out its fluorescence. To obtain a low background level, the tweezer light is chopped, and we measure the influence of the chopping frequency on the atom's lifetime. We use the single atom as a single-photon source at 780 nm and measure the second-order correlation function of the emitted photons. Because of its miniature, robust, fiber-pigtailed design, this tweezer can be implemented in a broad range of experiments where single atoms are used as a resource.
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hal-00871595 , version 1 (14-10-2013)

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Sébastien Garcia, Dominik Maxein, Leander Hohmann, Jakob Reichel, Romain Long. Fiber-pigtailed optical tweezer for single-atom trapping and single-photon generation. Applied Physics Letters, 2013, 103 (11), pp.4103. ⟨10.1063/1.4821160⟩. ⟨hal-00871595⟩
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