Shaping quantum pulses of light via coherent atomic memory

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 23, 2004, Pages

  Eisaman, M D ^a   Childress, L ^a   Andre A ^a   Massou, F ^a   Zibrov, A S ^a,b,c   Lukin, M D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC EXCITATIONS; ATOMIC SPIN; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY (EIT); STOKES PHOTON NUMBERS;

DATA REDUCTION; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; RAMAN SCATTERING;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 45849155718     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.233602     Document Type: Article

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