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Q: Quantenoptik
Q 30: Poster: Quanteneffekte
Q 30.12: Poster
Dienstag, 25. März 2003, 16:30–18:30, Lichthof
A new QND detection scheme for single photons — •Mikhail P. Klembovsky1,2, Mikhail L. Gorodetsky2, Thomas Becker3, and Herbert Walther1,3 — 1Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, 85748 Garching — 2Moscow State University, 117234 Moscow, Russia — 3Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 85748 Garching
We present a
new scheme for single photon QND measurements [1]. The method
allows to distinguish the zero- and one-photon states of a
quantized mode of a microwave cavity in non-destructive way. It is
based on the interaction between a three level Rydberg atom and a
microwave cavity. The superconducting cavity has a special
toroidal geometry with high Q-factor and is sufficiently tunable.
The atom interacts twice with the field. Therefore, a photon
absorbed in a first section is then emitted again in a second one,
leaving the cavity field unchanged. The cavity we designed and
tested satisfies the experimental requirements with measured
Q-factor 2× 109 at the resonance frequency 21.456 GHz.
The Raby frequency of the used TE011 cavity mode is 40 KHz
leading to the strong atom-field coupling necessary for the
experiment. The obtained parameters allow to make ∼ 1000
separate QND measurements during the ringdown time
of the cavity.
[1] V.B. Braginsky, F.Ya.Khalily Phys. Lett. A 186 15 (1994)