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Cross Modulation of Two Laser Beams at the Individual-Photon Level

dc.contributor.authorChen, Wenlan
dc.contributor.authorLin, Qian
dc.contributor.authorGullans, Michael
dc.contributor.authorLukin, Mikhail D.
dc.contributor.authorBeck, Kristin Marie
dc.contributor.authorVuletic, Vladan
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-15T17:58:31Z
dc.date.available2014-09-15T17:58:31Z
dc.date.issued2014-09
dc.date.submitted2014-04
dc.identifier.issn0031-9007
dc.identifier.issn1079-7114
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89567
dc.description.abstractDeterministic photon-photon interactions are a long-standing goal in optical science. Using an atomic ensemble inside a cavity, we demonstrate the mutual cross modulation of two continuous light beams at the level of individual photons. The originally uncorrelated beams derived from independent lasers become anticorrelated, as evidenced by an equal-time cross-correlation function g[superscript (2)] = 0.89(1), showing that one photon in one beam extinguishes a photon in the other beam with a probability of 11(1)%. With further technical improvements, our approach should enable the nondestructive continuous detection of traveling optical photons.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation (U.S.)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipMIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atomsen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUnited States. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Quantum Memories Multidisciplinary University Research Initiativeen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUnited States. Army Research Office. QuISM Multidisciplinary University Research Initiativeen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation (U.S.). Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Grant 0645960)en_US
dc.publisherAmerican Physical Societyen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.113603en_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.sourceAmerican Physical Societyen_US
dc.titleCross Modulation of Two Laser Beams at the Individual-Photon Levelen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationBeck, Kristin M., Wenlan Chen, Qian Lin, Michael Gullans, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Vladan Vuletic. "Cross Modulation of Two Laser Beams at the Individual-Photon Level." Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 113603 (September 2014). © 2014 American Physical Societyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physicsen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronicsen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorBeck, Kristin Marieen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorChen, Wenlanen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorLin, Qianen_US
dc.contributor.mitauthorVuletic, Vladanen_US
dc.relation.journalPhysical Review Lettersen_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dc.date.updated2014-09-12T22:00:02Z
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dspace.orderedauthorsBeck, Kristin M.; Chen, Wenlan; Lin, Qian; Gullans, Michael; Lukin, Mikhail D.; Vuletic, Vladanen_US
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2486-4164
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1521-5365
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-0538
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