Architecture dependence of photon antibunching in cavity quantum electrodynamics

We investigate numerically the architecture dependence of the characteristics of antibunched photons generated in cavity quantum electrodynamic systems. We show that the quality of antibunching [the smallness of the second-order intensity correlation function at zero time g(2)(0)] and the generation efficiency significantly depend on the configurations: the arrangements of single-mode optical cavities and waveguides. We found that for certain class of architecture, when the Jaynes-Cummings system (the atom-cavity system) couples to two terminated waveguides, there exists a fundamental tradeoff between high transmission and low g(2)(0), and is sensitive to dissipation. We further show that optimal antibunching can be achieved in two alternative cavity quantum electrodynamic configurations operating in the dissipatively weak coupling regime such that the two-photon transmission can be two orders of magnitude higher for the same g(2)(0).