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Frontiers in Optics

Optical memory based on coherent population oscillations

Marie-Aude Maynard, Fabien Bretenaker, Fabienne Goldfarb

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report the experimental observation of Coherent Population Oscillation (CPO) based light storage in metastable helium at room temperature. This light storage technique has been shown to be phase preserving.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2014.ftu5c.3

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