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The creation of light has pre-occupied mankind, probably ever since cave men came to control fire. Since the invention of the electric light bulb, there have already been several revolutions in our ability to control light. One of these has been stimulated emission which gave rise to lasers. There have been many other developments recently which involve control over amplitude and phase of electromagnetic waves, including for example photon number state squeezing1.
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Yablonovitch, E. (1995). Light Emission in Photonic Crystal Micro-Cavities. In: Burstein, E., Weisbuch, C. (eds) Confined Electrons and Photons. NATO ASI Series, vol 340. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1963-8_20
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