Storage and Retrieval of a Squeezed Vacuum
和仁 本多, Kazuhito Honda, 大輔 赤松, Daisuke Akamatsu, 学 有川, Manabu Arikawa, 圭一郎 秋葉, K. Akiba, 哲史 永塚, Satoshi Nagatsuka, 明 古沢, 崇仁 谷村, 幹男 上妻, Akira Furusawa, 上妻 幹男, Mikio Kozuma
Abstract
Storage and retrieval of a squeezed vacuum was successfully demonstrated using electromagnetically induced transparency. The squeezed vacuum pulse having a temporal width of 930 ns was incident on the laser cooled 87Rb atoms with an intense control light in a coherent state. When the squeezed vacuum pulse was slowed and spatially compressed in the cold atoms, the control light was switched off. After 3 µs of storage, the control light was switched on again, and the squeezed vacuum was retrieved, as was confirmed using the time-domain homodyne method.