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Optics Communications

Low light level all-optical switching in a four-level atom-cavity system

Yafan Duan, Gongwei Lin, Shicheng Zhang, Yueping Niu, Shangqing Gong

Published Sep 18, 2015• 15 citations
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10.1016/j.optcom.2015.09.043

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