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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Optimizing stored light efficiency in vapor cells

Irina V. Novikova, Mason Klein, David F. Phillips, Ronald Lee Walsworth

Published Apr 4, 2005• 3 citations
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Abstract

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.

DOI
10.1117/12.601709

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