Electromagnetically induced transparency with tunable single-photon pulses

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7069, 2005, Pages 837-841

  Eisaman, M D ^a   Andre A ^a   Massou, F ^a   Fleischhauer, M ^a,b,c   Zibrov, A S ^a,b,d   Lukin, M D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^d LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETISM; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

MULTIPLE MEMORY NODES; SINGLE PHOTONS;

PHOTONS;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

EID: 28644441413     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04327     Document Type: Article

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