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arXiv:2106.13650 · Nature Photonics

Few-photon all-optical phase rotation in a quantum-well micropillar cavity

Tintu Kuriakose, Paul M. Walker, Toby Dowling, Oleksandr Kyriienko, Ivan Andreevich Shelykh, Philippe St-Jean, N. Carlon Zambon, Aristide Lemaître, Isabelle Sagnes, Luc Le Gratiet, Abdelmounaïm Harouri, Sylvain Ravets, Maurice S. Skolnick, Alberto Amo, Jacqueline Bloch, Dmitry N. Krizhanovskii

Published Jun 16, 2022• 28 citations
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10.1038/s41566-022-01019-6

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