From Single Atoms to Engineered “Super-Atoms”: Interfacing Photons and Atoms in Free Space

Figure 12

Temporal shaping of the photon emission from an atomic array of atoms with . Integrated intensity as function of the distance from the atomic sample (blue dashed line) using a constant pulse (thin, red dashed line) with and . With a specially designed outcoupling pulse with peak Rabi frequency and the temporal shape (thin red line), we obtain a Gaussian temporal shape at of the emitted light intensity (blue line). The figure is from [17].