Photon-echo quantum memory in solid state systems

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 244-267

  Tittel, Wolfgang ^a   Afzelius, Mikael ^b   Chanelière, Thierry ^c   Cone, Rufus L ^d   Kröll, Stefan ^e   Moiseev, Sergey A ^a,f   Sellars, Matthew ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

^d MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f ZAVOISKY PHYSICAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^g AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Photon echo; Quantum communication; Quantum memory; Quantum repeater; Rare earth ions

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM MEMORIES; QUANTUM REPEATERS; RARE-EARTH-IONS;

COMMUNICATION; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; EXPERIMENTS; IONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 77049097885     PISSN: 18638880     EISSN: 18638899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.200810056     Document Type: Review

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