Optimizing stored light efficiency in vapor cells

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5735, Issue , 2005, Pages 87-97

  Novikova, Irina ^a   Klein, Mason ^a,b   Phillips, David F ^a   Walsworth, Ronald L ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffer gas; Electromagnetically induced transparency; Slow light; Stored light; Vapor cell

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); ELECTROMAGNETISM; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONS; TRANSPARENCY;

BUFFER GAS; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY (EIT); SLOW LIGHT; STORED LIGHT; VAPOR CELLS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 23744480776     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.601709     Document Type: Conference Paper

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