Optimizing stored light efficiency in vapor cells
Irina V. Novikova, Mason Klein, David F. Phillips +1 more
We present a preliminary experimental study of slow and stored light in Rb vapor cells under the conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). We study the efficiency of light storage as a function of pulse duration, storage time, retrieval field intensity, etc. We demonstrate that atomic diffusion in-and-out of the laser beam plays an important role not well described by previous analysis.
Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE•Apr 4, 2005•3 citations