Photon Correlation versus Interference of Single-Atom Fluorescence in a Half-Cavity
François Dubin, D. Rotter, Manas Mukherjee, Carlos Russo, Jürgen Eschner, R. Blatt · Physical Review Letters · 2007
Photon correlations are investigated for a single laser-excited ion trapped in front of a mirror. Varying the relative distance between the ion and the mirror, photon correlation statistics can be tuned smoothly from an antibunching minimum to a bunchinglike maximum. Our analysis concerns the non-Markovian regime of the ion-mirror interaction and reveals the field establishment in a half-cavity interferometer.