Two-Color Pump-Probe Measurement of Photonic Quantum Correlations Mediated by a Single Phonon
Two-Color Pump-Probe Measurement of Photonic Quantum Correlations Mediated by a Single Phonon
We propose and demonstrate a versatile technique to measure the lifetime of the one-phonon Fock state using two-color pump-probe Raman scattering and spectrally-resolved, time-correlated photon counting. Following pulsed laser excitation, the $n=1$ phonon Fock state is probabilistically prepared by projective measurement of a single Stokes photon. The detection of an …