Impossibility of faithfully storing single photons with the three-pulse photon echo

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Sangouard, Nicolas ^a   Simon, Christoph ^b   Minář, Jiří ^a   Afzelius, Mikael ^a   Chanelière, Thierry ^c   Gisin, Nicolas ^a   Le Gouët, Jean Louis ^c   De Riedmatten, Hugues ^a   Tittel, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ENSEMBLE; ECHO SIGNALS; INTENSE LIGHT PULSE; PHASE RELAXATION; POTENTIAL TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM MEMORIES; QUANTUM STATE STORAGE; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON LEVEL; TEMPORAL MODES; THREE LEVEL SYSTEMS; THREE-PULSE PHOTON ECHO;

LIGHT; PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM THEORY;

PHOTONS;

EID: 77954197265     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.062333     Document Type: Article

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