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Frontiers in Optics

Addressable optical buffer via angular multiplexing in an electromagnetically induced transparency solid

Yanfei Tu, Guoquan Zhang, Zhaohui Zhai, Jingjun Xu

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We introduced angular multiplexing in light storage via electromagnetically induced transparency in a Pr3+:Y2SiO5 crystal. Multi-channel buffer memory and addressable all-optical routing were demonstrated by selectively reading out stored pulses without cross-talk between neighboring channels.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2009.fwk4

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