High-fidelity polarization storage in a gigahertz bandwidth quantum memory

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  England, D G ^a   Michelberger, P S ^a   Champion, T F M ^a   Reim, K F ^a,c   Lee, K C ^a   Sprague, M R ^a   Jin, X M ^a,b   Langford, N K ^a,d   Kolthammer, W S ^a   Nunn, J ^a   Walmsley, I A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ENSEMBLE; FULL PROCESS TOMOGRAPHY; HIGH FIDELITY; OPTICAL RAMAN; POLARIZATION INTERFEROMETER; PULSE DURATIONS; QUANTUM MEMORIES; QUANTUM NETWORK; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STORAGE AND RETRIEVALS; STORAGE TIME; TIME-BANDWIDTH PRODUCTS;

POLARIZATION;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84862225020     PISSN: 09534075     EISSN: 13616455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/45/12/124008     Document Type: Article

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