Storage of light in atomic vapor.
By D. Phillips, A. Fleischhauer, A. Mair, R. Walsworth, Mikhail D. Lukin. Physical Review Letters, 2000
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We report an experiment in which a light pulse is effectively decelerated and trapped in a vapor of Rb atoms, stored for a controlled period of time, and then released on demand. We accomplish this "storage of light" by dynamically reducing the group velocity of the light pulse to zero, so that the coherent excitation of the light is reversibly mapped into a Zeeman (spin) coherence of the Rb vapor.
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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- Mikhail D. Lukin
- Darrick E. Chang
- Klemens Hammerer
- Eugene Simon Polzik
- Nicolas Gisin
- C. Simon
Citations in the corpus
- Four-wave-mixing stopped light in hot atomic rubidium vapour (2009, background): “The information of the signal and idler pulses, as seen from equation (4), is embedded in the ground-state coherence.”
- Long-lived quantum memory (2009, background): “Millisecond storage of classical, coherent light has been reported in atomic gase”
- Multiphoton entanglement and interferometry (2008, background): “Long lifetimes for relevant coherence have been observed both in a room-temperature dilute atomic gas (Phillips et al., 2001) and in a sample of cold trapped atoms (Liu et al., 2001).”
- Colloquium: Trapping and manipulating photon states in atomic ensembles (2003, methodology): “Another experiment (Phillips et al., 2001) involved Zeeman sublevels of the electronic ground state of warm Rb atoms and used polarization control techniques to manipulate them.”