Switching of light with light using cold atoms inside a hollow optical fiber

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Bajcsy, Michal; Hofferberth, Sebastian; Peyronel, Thibault Michel Max; Balic, Vlatko; Hafezi, Mohammad; ... Show more
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Abstract
We demonstrate a fiber-optical switch that operates with a few hundred photons per switching pulse. The light-light interaction is mediated by laser-cooled atoms. The required strong interaction between atoms and light is achieved by simultaneously confining photons and atoms inside the microscopic hollow core of a single-mode photonic-crystal fiber.
Date issued
2009-06
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64684
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics; MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms
Journal
International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy (19th : 2009) Proceedings
Publisher
World Scientific
Citation
Bajcsy, M. et al. “Switching of Light with Light Using Cold Atoms Inside a Hollow Optical Fiber.” Laser Spectroscopy - Proceedings of the XIX International Conference. Kussharo, Hokkaido, Japan, 2010. 127-136.
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