{
  "id": "1512.05537",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-12-17T11:24:37.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-12-17T11:24:37.000Z",
  "title": "Single photons from dissipation in coupled cavities",
  "authors": [
    "H. Flayac",
    "V. Savona"
  ],
  "comment": "6 pages, 5 figures + Supplemental Material (4 pages, 3 figures)",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "cond-mat.other"
  ],
  "abstract": "We propose a single photon source based on a pair of weakly nonlinear optical cavities subject to a one-directional dissipative coupling. When both cavities are driven by mutually coherent fields, sub-poissonian light is generated in the target cavity even when the nonlinear energy per photon is much smaller than the dissipation rate. The sub-poissonian character of the field holds over a delay measured by the inverse photon lifetime, as in the conventional photon blockade, thus allowing single-photon emission under pulsed excitation. We study a possible implementation of the dissipative coupling, compatible with current photonic platforms.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-12-17T11:24:37.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "coupled cavities",
      "dissipation",
      "weakly nonlinear optical cavities subject",
      "current photonic platforms",
      "conventional photon blockade"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2015arXiv151205537F"
    }
  }
}