Phase modulation at the few-photon level for weak-nonlinearity-based quantum computing

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 138-141

  Venkataraman, Vivek ^a   Saha, Kasturi ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAST RESPONSE TIME; NONLINEAR PHASE SHIFT; QUANTUM COMPUTING; QUANTUM INFORMATION APPLICATIONS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; RUBIDIUM ATOMS; SINGLE PHOTONS; WEAK NONLINEARITY;

LIGHT; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS; PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84873405021     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2012.283     Document Type: Article

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