Towards high-speed optical quantum memories

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 218-221

  Reim, K F ^a   Nunn, J ^a   Lorenz, V O ^a,b   Sussman, B J ^a,c   Lee, K C ^a   Langford, N K ^a   Jaksch, D ^a   Walmsley, I A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE TIME; CONTROL FIELDS; MEMORY BANDWIDTHS; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; STORAGE AND RETRIEVALS; SUB NANOSECONDS; TOTAL EFFICIENCY; TWO-PHOTON TRANSITIONS;

BANDWIDTH; PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; VAPORS;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 77950498106     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.30     Document Type: Article

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