Single photon Fock state filtering with an artificial atom
Lorenzo De Santis, C. Antón, B. Reznychenko, Niccolò Somaschi, G. Coppola, Jean Sénellart, C. Gómez, A. Lemître, Isabelle Sagnes, Andrew G. White, L. Lanco, Alexia Auffèves, P. Senellart · 2017
We demonstrate the single-photon Fock state filtering on a QD-micropillar cavity system. By performing resonant-excitation measurements, we observe an optical nonlinearity at the sub-photon scale and 80% single-photons in the reflected light intensity.