A single-photon transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 807-812

  Chang, Darrick E ^a   Sørensen, Anders S ^b   Demler, Eugene A ^a   Lukin, Mikhail D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; NANOWIRES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SURFACE PLASMONS;

ALL-OPTICAL DEVICE; CONDUCTING NANOWIRES; NANO-SCALE SURFACES; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL MEDIA; OPTICAL TECHNIQUE; PROPAGATING SURFACE PLASMONS; SINGLE-PHOTON LEVEL;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 35748948649     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys708     Document Type: Article

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