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Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4611 - 4614 (1999)

Nonlinear Optics at Low Light Levels

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S. E. Harris
Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305

Lene Vestergaard Hau
Rowland Institute for Science, 100 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142
and Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Received 21 December 1998

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.


©1999 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4611
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4611
PACS: 32.80.-t, 42.50.Dv, 42.50.Gy, 42.50.Hz

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