Seeing a single photon without destroying it

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6741, 1999, Pages 239-242

  Nogues, G ^a   Rauschenbeutel, A ^a   Osnaghi, S ^a   Brune, M ^a   Raimond, J M ^a   Haroche, S ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE KASTLER BROSSEL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODYNAMICS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; QUANTUM THEORY;

ATOMIC INTERFEROMETRY; ATOMIC WAVEFUNCTION; PHOTON DETECTION;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ENVIRONMENT; GRAVITY; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0033566241     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/22275     Document Type: Article

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