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Nonlinear optics with one molecule and two photons

André Pscherer, Manuel Meierhofer, Daqing Wang, Hrishikesh Kelkar, Diego Martín-Cano, Tobias Utikal, Stephan Götzinger, Vahid Sandoghdar

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations

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Abstract

We use single solid state organic molecules strongly coupled to a tunable Fabry-Perot microcavity to perform nonlinear optics experiments at the single quantum limit.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2021.fm3n.5

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