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Nature

Seeing a single photon without destroying it

Gilles Nogues, Arno Rauschenbeutel, S. Osnaghi, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, S. Haroche

Published Jul 1, 1999• 443 citations

DOI: 10.1038/22275

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