Nonlinear Optics

Ultrafast Single-photon Non-linearities on a Semiconductor Chip

Thomas Volz

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations

Abstract

This talk will present experimental results on the observation of strong single-photon non-linearities in a quantum-dot cavity device. We observe strong photon blockade for resonantly scattered photons and demonstrate ultrafast all-optical switching by single photons.

DOI: 10.1364/nlo.2013.nth3a.1

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