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Nature Photonics 1, 315 - 316 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2007.85

Atomic spectroscopy: Rubidium on a chip

Jay E. Sharping1

  1. Jay E. Sharping is in the School of Natural Sciences, University of California at Merced, PO Box 2039, Merced, California 95344, USA.
    e-mail: jsharping@ucmerced.edu


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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