Switching of light with light using cold atoms inside a hollow optical fiber
We demonstrate a fiber-optical switch that operates with a few hundred photons per switching pulse. The light-light interaction is mediated by laser-cooled atoms. The required strong interaction between atoms and light is achieved by simultaneously confining photons and atoms inside the microscopi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | en_US |
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World Scientific
2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64684 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-0538 |
| Summary: | We demonstrate a fiber-optical switch that operates with a few hundred photons per switching pulse. The light-light interaction is mediated by laser-cooled
atoms. The required strong interaction between atoms and light is achieved by
simultaneously confining photons and atoms inside the microscopic hollow core
of a single-mode photonic-crystal fiber. |
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