Fiber-coupled single ion as an efficient quantum light source
  We have realized a compact system to efficiently couple the fluorescent light emitted by a single trapped ion to two opposing optical fibers. The fibers are tightly integrated in the center electrodes of a miniature endcap trap. They capture light from the ion with a numerical aperture of 0.34 each, corresponding to 6% of the solid angle in total. The high collection efficiency and high signal-to-background ratio make the setup an ideal quantum light source. We have observed strong antibunching of the photons emitted from the two fibers. The system has a range of applications from single-ion state detection in quantum information processing to strong coupling cavity-QED with ions. 
Alex Wilson, Hiroki Takahashi, Andrew Riley-Watson, Fedja Orucevic,   Peter Blythe, Anders Mortensen, Daniel R. Crick, Nicol...
quant-ph physics.atom-ph