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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Measurement of optical cross-Kerr nonlinearity induced by a few photons in a photonic crystal fiber

Nobuyuki Matsuda, Ryōsuke Shimizu, Yasuyoshi Mitsumori, Hideo Kosaka, Keiichi Edamatsu

Published Jun 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

The purpose of our study is to establish the technique to measure such weak cross-Kerr nonlinearity induced by a single photon in solid states. The experimental set-up is based on a pump-probe measurement.
DOI
10.1109/cleoe-iqec.2007.4386883

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