Nonlinear Optics at Low Light Levels
- 7 June 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 82 (23) , 4611-4614
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.82.4611
Abstract
We show how the combination of electromagnetically induced transparency based nonlinear optics and cold atom technology, under conditions of ultraslow light propagation, allows nonlinear processes at energies of a few photons per atomic cross section.Keywords
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