Switching and Counting With Atomic Vapors in Photonic-Crystal Fibers

Switching and Counting With Atomic Vapors in Photonic-Crystal Fibers

We review our recent experiments demonstrating a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber loaded with laser-cooled atomic vapor as a system for all-optical switching with pulses containing few hundred photons. Additionally, we discuss the outlooks for improving the efficiency of this switching scheme and...

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Main Authors: Peyronel, Thibault Michel Max, Liang, Qiyu, Vuletic, Vladan, Bajcsy, Michal, Hofferberth, Sebastian, Balic, Vlatko, Hafezi, Mohammad, Zibrov, Alexander, Lukin, Mikhail D.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81191
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2430-7248
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-0538
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Summary:We review our recent experiments demonstrating a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber loaded with laser-cooled atomic vapor as a system for all-optical switching with pulses containing few hundred photons. Additionally, we discuss the outlooks for improving the efficiency of this switching scheme and present preliminary results geared toward using the system as a photon-number resolving detector.

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