Ultrafast all-optical switching by single photons

Nature Photonics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 605-609

  Volz, Thomas ^a   Reinhard, Andreas ^a   Winger, Martin ^a   Badolato, Antonio ^b   Hennessy, Kevin J ^a   Hu, Evelyn L ^c   Imamoǧlu, Ataç ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL OPTICAL SWITCH; CONTROLLED PHASE GATE; NON-LINEAR OPTICS EFFECTS; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; SINGLE-PHOTON LEVEL; SINGLE-PHOTON SWITCHES; ULTRAFAST ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; ULTRAFAST TIMESCALES;

EXCITONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 84866362573     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.181     Document Type: Article

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