Switching and counting with atomic vapors in photonic-crystal fibers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1747-1753

  Peyronel, Thibault ^a   Bajcsy, Michal ^b,c   Hofferberth, Sebastian ^d,e   Balic, Vlatko ^d,f   Hafezi, Mohammad ^d   Liang, Qiyu ^a   Zibrov, Alexander ^d   Vuletic, Vladan ^a   Lukin, Mikhail D ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

All optical switching; electromagnetically induced transparency; laser cooled atoms in hollow waveguides; photon number detection

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; ATOMIC VAPOR; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL FIBERS; LASER-COOLED; LASER-COOLED ATOMS; PHOTON NUMBERS; SWITCHING SCHEME;

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; LASER COOLING; PHOTONS; VAPORS;

OPTICAL SWITCHES;

EID: 84866279538     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2012.2196414     Document Type: Article

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