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The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting

Mode-selective all-optical switching via quantum frequency conversion

Abijith S. Kowligy, Prem Kumar, Yu-Ping Huang

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose mode-selective all-optical switching by utilizing quantum frequency conversion in a single-mode regime. This can potentially augment existing tools for all-optical information processing in the quantum domain.
DOI
10.1364/cqo.2013.m6.32

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