Author(s): Bharath Srivathsan, Gurpreet Kaur Gulati, Alessandro Cerè, Brenda Chng, and Christian Kurtsiefer
The temporal pulse shape of a single photon can be engineered, from an exponential decay to an exponential rise, using a Fabry-Perot optical cavity. This ‘shaping’ would make it easier to couple photons to atoms in a cavity.
[Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 163601] Published Wed Oct 15, 2014