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Nature Photonics 3, 429 - 430 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2009.125
Optical switching: Atoms and photons share quarters
Barak Dayan1 & Yaron Silberberg2
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Barak Dayan is in the Department of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
e-mail: barak.dayan@weizmann.ac.il -
Yaron Silberberg is in the Department of Physics of Complex Systems at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
e-mail: yaron.silberberg@weizmann.ac.il
Abstract
The demonstration of all-optical switching by confining light and cold rubidium atoms in a hollow-core photonic band-gap fibre may help bring the goal of single-photon switching closer to reality.
