Storage and retrieval of collective excitations on a long-lived spin transition in a rare-earth ion-doped crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 10087-10094

  Goldschmidt, E A ^a,b   Beavan, S E ^a,b   Polyakov, S V ^a   Migdall, A L ^a   Sellars, M J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM OPTICS;

COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM MEMORY; QUANTUM REPEATERS; SPIN TRANSITION; SPONTANEOUS RAMAN SCATTERING; STORAGE AND RETRIEVALS; TIME DYNAMIC;

OPTICAL CORRELATION;

ION; LANTHANIDE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPIN LABELING;

ABSORPTION; CRYSTALLIZATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; IONS; LIGHT; MATERIALS TESTING; METALS, RARE EARTH; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; SPIN LABELS;

EID: 84877139237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.010087     Document Type: Article

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