Remnants of semiclassical bistability in the few-photon regime of cavity QED

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 24468-24482

  Kerckhoff, Joseph ^a,b   Armen, Michael A ^a   Mabuchi, Hideo ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; CESIUM; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CAVITY QED; FABRY-PEROT CAVITY; HOMODYNE DETECTION; HYSTERETIC RESPONSE; META-STABLE STATE; OPTICAL DRIVE; OPTICAL RESPONSE; PHOTONIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; QUANTUM CORRECTION; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; SEMICLASSICAL THEORIES; SINGLE-ATOM CAVITY; TIME-SCALES; ULTRA-LOW POWER;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 82055170428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024468     Document Type: Article

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