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Physical Review Letters

Storage and Retrieval of Multimode Transverse Images in Hot Atomic Rubidium Vapor

Praveen K. Vudyasetu, Ryan M. Camacho, John C. Howell

Published Mar 26, 2008• 136 citations
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Abstract

We report on the experimental realization of the storage of images in a hot vapor of Rubidium atoms. The images are stored in and retrieved from the long-lived ground state atomic coherences. We show that an image impressed onto a 500 ns pulse can be stored and retrieved up to 30 mus later. The image storage is made robust to diffusion by storing the Fourier transform of the image.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.100.123903

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