Few photon switching with slow light in hollow fiber
Cold atoms confined inside a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber with core diameters of a few photon wavelengths are a promising medium for studying nonlinear optical interactions at extremely low light levels. The high electric field intensity per photon and interaction lengths not limited by diffra...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | en_US |
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Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51825 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-0538 |
| Summary: | Cold atoms confined inside a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber with core diameters of a few photon wavelengths are a promising medium for studying nonlinear optical interactions at extremely low light levels. The high electric field intensity per photon and interaction lengths not limited by diffraction are some of the unique features of this system. Here, we present the results of our first nonlinear optics experiments in this system including a demonstration of an all-optical switch that is activated at energies corresponding to few hundred optical photons per pulse. |
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