The Quantum Optics Circus -
Flying Photons
Acrobatic Atoms
Entangled Ensembles
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Jeff Kimble
Department of Physics
California Institute of Technology
(VTC from Boulder)
Special Time & Location
Friday, February 9, 2007
1:00 p.m., Lecture Room A
Since its inception more than 40 years ago, quantum optics has made remarkable advances in the exploration of the quantum character of light, including the microscopic control of single atoms and photons. Indeed, laser operation has been pushed to the conceptual limit with the realization of a laser that operates with one acrobatic atom. Single, flying photons can now be generated deterministically at the push of a button. Ensembles of atoms can be projected into an entangled quantum state by the "click" of a photodetector. Beyond their fundamental significance, such advances are helping to lay the foundations for the new science of quantum information, including the realization of complex quantum networks.
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