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Frontiers in Optics

Slow light pulse delays in Rb vapor cells

Irina V. Novikova, Mason Klein, Yanhong Xiao, D. F. Phillips, Ronald Lee Walsworth

Published Jan 1, 2005• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present an experimental study of slow and stored light in Rb vapor cells under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). We study the fundamental limitations for pulse delay in such a system.
DOI
10.1364/ls.2005.lwb4

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