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Nature Physics 3, 755 - 756 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphys766
Subject Categories: Electronics, photonics and device physics | Optical physics
Nano-optics: Quantum light switch
Michel Orrit1
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Michel Orrit is a member of MoNOS at the Leiden Institute of Physics, Postbus 9504, Leiden University, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands.
e-mail: orrit@molphys.leidenuniv.nl
Abstract
Combining the strong nonlinearity of single-photon emitters with the light-focusing characteristics of metal nanowires could soon enable the realization of a single-photon transistor — a device that would revolutionize the field of quantum optics.
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