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Frontiers in Optics

Optimizing Slow and Stored Light via EIT in Alkali Vapor

Irina V. Novikova, Nate Phillips, Alexey Vyacheslavovich Gorshkov, Mikhail D. Lukin, Yanhong Xiao, Mason Klein, D. F. Phillips, Ronald Lee Walsworth

Published Jan 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the possibility to achieve high-efficiency quantum memory in atomic vapor. We demonstrate a procedure to obtain the maximum efficiency for the storage and retrieval of light pulses based on a pulse-shape optimization.
DOI
10.1364/ls.2007.lwe1

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