Title :
Strong photon-photon interactions
Author :
Vuletic, Vladan ; Peyronel, Thibault ; Firstenberg, Ofer ; Qiyu Liang ; Lukin, Mikhail ; Wenlan Chen ; Beck, Kristin
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
Standard nonlinear optical materials exhibit negligible nonlinearity at the level of individual photons. We discuss two methods to generate strong photon-photon interactions using either atom-cavity coupling, or strong interactions between atoms in Rydberg states. In particular, we have demonstrated an all-optical transistor gated by one stored photon, and a bound state of two photons.
Keywords :
atom-photon collisions; bound states; nonlinear optics; Rγdberg states; all-optical transistor; atom-cavity coupling; bound state; nonlinear optical materials; photon-photon interactions; Atom optics; Cavity resonators; Indexes; Logic gates; Nonlinear optics; Optical resonators; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
