Colloquium

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Very attractive photons

November 12, 2014l Hit 1174
Date : November 12, 2014 16:00 ~
Speaker : Prof. Vladan Vuletic (MIT )
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Location : 56동106호
Photons are a little boring: they all move at one speed and do not interact with one another. I will present an unusual optical medium that is nonlinear at the quantum scale: I this medium, photons travel slowly, acquire mass, and exhibit mutual attraction, so strong that two photons can even form a two-body bound state. I will also present an all-optical transistor where a single photon switches on and off another light beam containing hundreds of photons.
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