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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

All-optical atomic simulator on a nonlinear photonic chip

Ivan A. Burenkov, Irina V. Novikova, Olga V. Tikhonova, Sergey V. Polyakov

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

We show how quantum-compatible photonic devices such as ultrafast optical switch and efficient frequency transducer can be implemented using three-wave mixing processes in a 1D array of nonlinear waveguides evanescently coupled to nearest neighbors.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2021.jtu3a.56

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