High efficiency coherent optical memory with warm rubidium vapour

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Hosseini, M ^a   Sparkes, B M ^a   Campbell, G ^a   Lam, P K ^a   Buchler, B C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RUBIDIUM;

ARTICLE; LIGHT; PHOTON; QUANTUM MECHANICS; VAPOR; VISUAL MEMORY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DATA STORAGE DEVICE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER STORAGE DEVICES; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MAGNETICS; QUANTUM THEORY; RUBIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79551599993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1175     Document Type: Article

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