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Measurement of the cross-Kerr nonlinearity induced by a single-photon-level coherent pulse in a photonic crystal fiber

Nobuyuki Matsuda, Ryōsuke Shimizu, Yasuyoshi Mitsumori, Hideo Kosaka, Keiichi Edamatsu, Alexander I. Lvovsky

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate the first observation of the cross‐Kerr nonlinearity induced by a single‐photon‐level coherent optical pulse in a photonic crystal fiber. Taking advantage of large nonlinearity and managed dispersion of the optical fiber, we have successfully measured very small (10−7) conditional phase shifts.
DOI
10.1063/1.3131314

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