Quantum Lithography beyond the Diffraction Limit via Rabi Oscillations
Abstract
We propose a quantum optical method to do the subwavelength lithography. Our method is similar to the traditional lithography but adding a critical step before dissociating the chemical bound of the photoresist. The subwavelength pattern is achieved by inducing the multi-Rabi oscillation between the two atomic levels. The proposed method does not require multiphoton absorption and the entanglement of photons. It is expected to be realizable using current technology.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.183601
- Bibcode:
- 2010PhRvL.105r3601L
- Keywords:
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- 42.50.St;
- 42.50.Ct;
- 42.50.Gy;
- 85.40.Hp;
- Nonclassical interferometry subwavelength lithography;
- Quantum description of interaction of light and matter;
- related experiments;
- Effects of atomic coherence on propagation absorption and amplification of light;
- electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption;
- Lithography masks and pattern transfer