Phys.org March 18, 2019
Researchers in Germany have demonstrated that an organic molecule placed into an optical microcavity behaves as a coherent two-level quantum system. This allows the observation of 99% extinction of a laser beam by a single molecule, saturation with less than 0.5 photons and non-classical generation of few-photons super-bunched light. They demonstrated that their molecule-microcavity system could interact with single photons generated by a second molecule in a distant laboratory. The research is an important step towards linear and nonlinear quantum photonic circuits based on organic platforms…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLEÂ
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