Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Multimode memories with longitudinally broadened ensembles

J. Nunn, Karl Surmacz, F. C. Waldermann, K.C. Lee, K. Reim, Virginia O. Lorenz, Z. Wang, Dieter Jaksch, Ian A. Walmsley

Published May 4, 2008• 0 citations

Abstract

Quantum storage of multiple optical modes affords improved performance for quantum repeaters. We present new analytic and numerical results unifying the scaling of the multimode storage capacity for various memory protocols in artificially broadened ensembles.

DOI: 10.1109/qels.2008.4553210

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