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A stronger single photon

Nature Physics volume 7, page 833 (2011)Cite this article

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 133603 (2011)

How do you amplify a single photon? By making it act like many photons. Amir Feizpour and colleagues have now shown how this might be possible using so-called weak measurements.

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Gevaux, D. A stronger single photon. Nature Phys 7, 833 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2144

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