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Frontiers in Optics

Extra phase shift created by optically detuned light storage in metastable helium

Marie-Aude Maynard, Romain Bouchez, E. Brion, Tarek Labidi, Musawwadah Mukhtar, Santosh Kumar, Rupamanjari Ghosh, Fabien Bretenaker, Fabienne Goldfarb

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

We perform Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (EIT)-based storage in metastable helium at room temperature. An additional phase shift is shown to be imposed to the retrieved pulse when we detune the coupling and probe beams from the center of the Doppler profile.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2014.ftu5c.4

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