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Measurement induced focussing of radiation from independent single photon sources

arXiv:1202.0164

Abstract

We present a technique based on multi-photon detection which leads to a strong focussing of photons scattered by independent single photon emitters. For N single photon sources it is shown that if m - 1 photons are detected in a particular direction (with m \leq N) the probability to detect the m-th photon in the same direction can be as high as 100%. This measurement induced focussing effect is already clearly visible for m>2.

4 pages, 2 figures