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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 17: Quantum Effects
Q 17.14: Poster
Thursday, September 23, 2021, 16:30–18:30, P
Nonlinear optics at the single photon level with an organic molecule — •André Pscherer1, Manuel Meierhofer1, Daqing Wang1, Hrishikesh Kelkar1, Diego Martín-Cano1, Tobias Utikal1, Stephan Götzinger2,1,3, and Vahid Sandghdar1,2 — 1Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany — 2Department of Physics, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany — 3Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (SAOT), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
Nonlinear light-matter interactions usually involve macroscopic materials and high intensities, often involving pulsed lasers. Here, we show that a single organic molecule embedded in a solid matrix can strongly couple to a high-finesse Fabry-Pérot cavity to mediate nonlinear interactions at the level of single photons. We demonstrate vacuum Rabi oscillations, single-photon switching, photon number sorting and four-wave mixing [1].
[1] A. Pscherer, et al., arXiv:2105.02560 (2021)