Figure 5: Time-resolved atomic excited state population Pe.
From: Time-resolved scattering of a single photon by a single atom
(a) Exponentially decaying and (b) exponentially rising probe photons. Red open circles, time bin size 2 ns: Pe(ti) obtained from forward detection rates integrating equation (7). Error bars represent 1 s.d. of the distributions obtained by a Monte–Carlo method and assuming Poissonian statistics for the detection rates. Green filled diamonds, time bin size 5 ns: Pe(ti) obtained from the backward detection rates using equation (5). Error bars show 1 s.d. assuming Poissonian statistics for the detection rates. Solid lines: Pe(t) from equations (3) and (4) using τp=13.3 ns, Λ=0.033.
