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