Efficient All-Optical Switching Using Slow Light within a Hollow Fiber
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Balic, Vlatko
Zibrov, A. S.
Hofferberth, Sebastian
Vuletic, Vladan
Hafezi, Mohammad
Lukin, M. D.
Bajcsy, Michal
Peyronel, Thibault
Date Issued
May 2009
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Bajcsy, M. et al. “Efficient All-Optical Switching Using Slow Light within a Hollow Fiber.” Physical Review Letters 102.20 (2009): 203902. © 2009 The American Physical Society.
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Abstract
We demonstrate a fiber-optical switch that is activated at tiny energies corresponding to a few hundred optical photons per pulse. This is achieved by simultaneously confining both photons and a small laser-cooled ensemble of atoms inside the microscopic hollow core of a single-mode photonic-crystal fiber and using quantum optical techniques for generating slow light propagation and large nonlinear interaction between light beams.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.203902
