Towards an efficient atomic frequency comb quantum memory

Amari, A.; Walther, A.; Sabooni, M.; Huang, M.; Kröll, S.; Afzelius, Mikael; Usmani, Imam; Lauritzen, Bjorn; Sangouard, Nicolas Bruno; de Riedmatten, Hugues; Gisin, Nicolas

doi:10.1016/j.jlumin.2010.01.012

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Towards an efficient atomic frequency comb quantum memory

ContributorsAmari, A.; Walther, A.; Sabooni, M.; Huang, M.; Kröll, S.; Afzelius, Mikael

; Usmani, Imam; Lauritzen, Bjorn; Sangouard, Nicolas Bruno; de Riedmatten, Hugues; Gisin, Nicolas

Published inJournal of luminescence, vol. 130, p. 1579-1585

Publication date2010

Abstract

We presentanefficientphoton-echoexperimentbasedonatomicfrequencycombs[Phys.Rev.A79 (2009)052329].Echoescontaininganenergyofupto35%ofthatoftheinputpulseareobservedina Pr3+-doped Y2SiO5 crystal.Thismaterialallowsfortheprecisespectralholeburningneededtomakea sharpandhighlyabsorbingcombstructure.Wecompareourresultswithasimpletheoreticalmodel with satisfactoryagreement.Ourresultsshowthatatomicfrequencycombshasthepotentialforhigh- efficiencystorageofsinglephotonsasrequiredinfuturelong-distancecommunicationbasedon quantumrepeaters.

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Faculté des sciences / Section de physique / Groupe de physique appliquée

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AMARI, A. et al. Towards an efficient atomic frequency comb quantum memory. In: Journal of luminescence, 2010, vol. 130, p. 1579–1585. doi: 10.1016/j.jlumin.2010.01.012

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PID : unige:11750
DOI : 10.1016/j.jlumin.2010.01.012

Journal ISSN0022-2313

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