title: Controlling the phase of a light beam with a single molecule.
abstract: We employ heterodyne interferometry to investigate the effect of a single organic molecule on the phase of a propagating laser beam. We report on the first phase-contrast images of individual molecules and demonstrate a single-molecule electro-optical phase switch by applying a voltage to the microelectrodes embedded in the sample. Our results may find applications in single-molecule holography, fast optical coherent signal processing, and single-emitter quantum operations.
authors: Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
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authors: Hwang
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