Cavity quantum electrodynamics with neutral atoms

We utilize a strongly-coupled atom cavity system to demonstrate optical nonlinearities on the single atom level. We employed higher-order resonances of the strongly-coupled system to realize a two-photon gateway where resonant photons are absorbed and emitted in pairs and extended the work to higher-order correlations. In the same system we demonstrated the ability of a single atom to produce quadrature-squeezed light, which has fluctuations of amplitude or phase that are below the shot-noise level.

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_{I. Schuster, et al., “Nonlinear spectroscopy of photons bound to one atom”. Nature Physics 4, 382–385 (2008)}