Efficient All-Optical Switching Using Slow Light within a Hollow Fiber 论文

详细信息

发表期刊/会议

Physical Review Letters

发表日期

2009-05-18

发表年份

2009

摘要

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.