Precision spectral manipulation: A demonstration using a coherent optical memory

Physical Review X

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Sparkes, B M ^a   Hosseini, M ^a   Cairns, C ^a   Higginbottom, D ^a   Campbell, G T ^a   Lam, P K ^a   Buchler, B C ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atomic and molecular physics; Quantum information; Quantum physics

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; INFORMATION SERVICES; QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; COHERENT OPTICAL; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; OPTICAL QUANTUM COMPUTING; QUANTUM CHANNEL; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM PHYSICS; SPECTRAL FILTERING;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 84921897826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.2.021011     Document Type: Article

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