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Quantum nonlinear optics

Focus on a single molecule

Nature Photonics volume 10, pages 438–440 (2016)Cite this article

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Tight focusing of two light beams onto an organic molecule opens the way to coherent nonlinear interactions at the few-photon level.

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Figure 1: Single-molecule nonlinear optics.

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  1. Sarah M. Skoff and Arno Rauschenbeutel are at the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Stadionallee 2, 1020 Vienna, Austria,

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