Free-space single-photon transistor based on Rydberg interaction

Asaf Paris-Mandoki; Hannes Gorniaczyk; Christoph Tresp; Ivan Mirgorodskiy; Christian Zimmer; Sebastian Hofferberth

doi:10.1117/12.2227393

29 April 2016 Free-space single-photon transistor based on Rydberg interaction

Asaf Paris-Mandoki, Hannes Gorniaczyk, Christoph Tresp, Ivan Mirgorodskiy, Christian Zimmer, Sebastian Hofferberth

Proceedings Volume 9900, Quantum Optics; 99000U (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227393
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2016, Brussels, Belgium

Abstract

An all-optical transistor working on the single-photon level is implemented using an ultracold atomic cloud as a medium. The interaction mechanism between gate and source photons is achieved by mapping these photons onto strongly interacting Rydberg excitations. Using a single gate photon more than 100 source photons can be switched. As an application of this transistor, we demonstrate nondestructive detection of a single Rydberg atom with a ﬁdelity of 0.79.

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Asaf Paris-Mandoki, Hannes Gorniaczyk, Christoph Tresp, Ivan Mirgorodskiy, Christian Zimmer, and Sebastian Hofferberth "Free-space single-photon transistor based on Rydberg interaction", Proc. SPIE 9900, Quantum Optics, 99000U (29 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2227393

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