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arxiv: 1202.4314 · v1 · pith:JPSGY2DSnew · submitted 2012-02-20 · 🪐 quant-ph

Atomic frequency comb memory with spin wave storage in 153Eu3+:Y2SiO5

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keywords memoryspinstoragey2sio5longatomiccombfrequency
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153Eu3+:Y2SiO5 is a very attractive candidate for a long lived, multimode quantum memory due to the long spin coherence time (~15 ms), the relatively large hyperfine splitting (100 MHz) and the narrow optical homogeneous linewidth (~100 Hz). Here we show an atomic frequency comb memory with spin wave storage in a promising material 153Eu3+:Y2SiO5, reaching storage times slightly beyond 10 {\mu}s. We analyze the efficiency of the storage process and discuss ways of improving it. We also measure the inhomogeneous spin linewidth of 153Eu3+:Y2SiO5, which we find to be 69 \pm 3 kHz. These results represent a further step towards realising a long lived multi mode solid state quantum memory.

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