All-optical routing of single photons by a one-atom switch controlled by a single photon

Science

Volumn 345, Issue 6199, 2014, Pages 903-906

  Shomroni, Itay ^a   Rosenblum, Serge ^a   Lovsky, Yulia ^a   Bechler, Orel ^a   Guendelman, Gabriel ^a   Dayan, Barak ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICLE MOTION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RESONANCE;

ARTICLE; ATOM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84926231164     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1254699     Document Type: Article

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