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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

“Remote Control” of coherent light absorption with entangled photons

Charles Altuzarra, Stefano Vezzoli, João Valente, Cesare Soci, Daniele Faccio, Christophe Couteau, Nikolay I. Zheludev

Published Jan 1, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

Using a source of entangled photons we show that polarization-sensitive detection of the photons can be used to switch “on” and “off” absorption of the other photon in a thin plasmonic metamaterial film.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2016.jtu5a.23

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