Efficient optical pumping and high optical depth in a hollow-core photonic-crystal fibre for a broadband quantum memory

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Sprague, Michael R ^a   England, Duncan G ^a,d   Abdolvand, Amir ^b   Nunn, Joshua ^a   Jin, Xian Min ^a   Steven Kolthammer, W ^a   Barbieri, Marco ^a   Rigal, Bruno ^c   Michelberger, Patrick S ^a   Champion, Tessa F M ^a   Russell, Philip St J ^b   Walmsley, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND PULSE; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL; LIGHT-MATTER COUPLING; MULTIPHOTON QUANTUM; NONLINEAR OPTICAL EFFECTS; QUANTUM MEMORY; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM THEORY;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 84878222338     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/5/055013     Document Type: Article

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