Speaker: Dr. Amir Feizpour
Ph.D., Post-doctoral Research Assistant
University of Oxford
Title: Nonlinear optics at the single-photon level
Time: Saturday, November 7, 2015, 12:30 (GMT+3:30)
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Abstract:
Photons are excellent information carriers: they are fast and they interact very weakly with their environment. However, they also interact extremely weakly with each other. This imposes an important challenge on any task that requires photon-photon interaction. Most notably, it is a major stumbling block in realizing the dream of optical quantum information processing. For this particular task, strong interactions between few-photon quantum states are needed. I will talk about our experimental effort to use cold Rubidium atoms as the mediator of photon-photon interactions and will present our results on the observation of cross-phase modulation using post-selected single photons.