Efficient retrieval of a single excitation stored in an atomic ensemble

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 6912-6918

  Laurat, Julien ^a   De Riedmatten, Hugues ^a   Felinto, Daniel ^a   Chou, Chin Wen ^a   Schomburg, Erik W ^a   Kimble, H Jeff ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTICLE OPTICS; PHOTONS; POWER GENERATION; QUANTUM OPTICS;

ATOMIC ENSEMBLE; SINGLE EXCITATION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL MODE; SUPPRESSION;

ELECTRIC EXCITATION;

EID: 33746409696     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006912     Document Type: Article

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