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Rubidium on a chip

The demonstration of a fingertip-sized optical vapour cell on a silicon chip could ultimately lead to compact devices capable of performing sophisticated optical-signal-processing tasks using only a few photons.

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Figure 1: A conceptual figure of the vision for ARROWs-based atomic spectroscopy reported by W. Yang et al.
Figure 2: Suggestions of optical switching devices based on the use of an atomic vapour cell.

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Sharping, J. Rubidium on a chip. Nature Photon 1, 315–316 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.85

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