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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

A Solid-State Multimode Long-Lived Optical Quantum Memory for Quantum Repeaters

Antariksha Das, Mohsen Falamarzi Askarani, Jacob H. Davidson, Gustavo Castro do Amaral, Neil E. Sinclair, Joshua A. Slater, Sara Marzban, Daniel Oblak, Charles W. Thiel, R. L. Cone, Wolfgang Tittel

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

In this work, we fabricate a multimode quantum memory out of a thuliumdoped crystal and demonstrate storage of laser pulses of up to 100 µsec. A significant step forward for creating quantum memories with long optical storage times.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_si.2022.stu5f.6

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